“The Lord Himself has laid the foundation of His people’s hopes. It is a matter for grace enquiry whether our hopes are built upon such basis. Good works and ceremonies are not a foundation of sapphires, but of wood, hay, and stubble; neither are they laid by God, but by our own conceit. Foundations will all be tired ere long: woe unto him whose lofty tower shall come down with a crash, because based on a quicksand. He who is built on sapphires may await storm of fire with equanimity, for he shall abide the test.” Charles Spurgeon
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