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“The best University for a Christian” by Charles Spurgeon

November 12, 2018
Charles Spurgeon, Christian Theology, Jesus Christ, Patience, Pentateuch, Perseverance, Puritanical, Quotable Quotes, Sanctification, Suffering

“The wilderness was the Oxford and Cambridge for God’s students. There is no University for a Christian like that of sorrow and trial.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Marah Better than Elim,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. 39 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1893), 39: 151.

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