“I always find I can preach best when I can manage to lie a-soak in my text. I like to get a text, and find out its meaning and bearings, and so on; and then, after I have bathed in it, I delight to lie down in it, and let it soak into me. It softens me, or hardens me, or does whatever it ought to do to me, and then I can talk about it.”
-C. H. Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2000), 124.
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