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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
Charles Spurgeon

Michelle DeRusha
“It's tempting to get lost in the study, to turn to books and study groups and classes, to know all about God but not know God himself, to read about the Bible rather than read the Bible itself.”
Michelle DeRusha, Spiritual Misfit: A Memoir of Uneasy Faith

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