“This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 227.

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British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834–1892

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