Charles Spurgeon believed that the holier a person becomes, the more they mourn over the unholiness still within them. He would choose holiness over happiness if they could not coexist, as being free from sin and loving holiness is true happiness. If Christ died for our sins, we cannot continue living in sin but must love and serve him who redeemed us. To be holy, one must maintain fellowship with Christ, as holiness is impossible without closeness to Jesus. Religion that does not make one holy will lead to damnation, as it is superficial to go to hell dressed in religious pageantry. Spurgeon's soul was so full of scripture that he could not speak without quoting from