“Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.”

—  Charles Spurgeon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.

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British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834–1892

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