Quote#Books & Reading
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were…
Quote byCharles Spurgeon · 1834–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37..
English (original)
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
— Charles Spurgeon
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