Charles Spurgeon Quotes

• If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Alternatives, Sin, Dies

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• Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Critics, Inconsistent

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• May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Desire, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Horse, Heart, Doors

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1303, Discovery House

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• None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Summer, Christian, Wisdom

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.146, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dying, Sincere, Repentance

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1151, Discovery House

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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• My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Done, Christ, Feels

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Light, Church

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• The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Lions

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• You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Children, Names

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.225, Discovery House

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• Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Mind, Delight

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• It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Matter, Easy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Remember that thought is speech before God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Speech, Remember, Omniscience

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• It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Matter, Praying

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• God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Heart

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• Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Happiness, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.535, Discovery House

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• Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Encouraging, Looks, Christ

  "Morning & Evening".

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• Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Eternal

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.37, Barbour Publishing

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• Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Differences, Matter

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• If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.712, Discovery House

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• Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Men, Pieces

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.707, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mind, States, State Of Mind

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.12, Barbour Publishing

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• Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.195, Barbour Publishing

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