Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Flowers

• Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Evil, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

• Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Flower, Roots

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.985, Barbour Publishing

• A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Flower, Light

• The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Rain, Believe

  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

• Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Flower, Long

• If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivation, Flower, Inspiration

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Diana L. Matisko (1984). “Evening by Evening”, Whitaker Distribution

• True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Humility, Garden

• The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Flower, Would Be

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.98

• John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Garden, Roots

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.103, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Giving, Perfume

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.39, Barbour Publishing

• No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation.
  The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double,
  but sevenfold;
  they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Flower, Garden

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on the New Testament”, p.1483, Titus Books

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