Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 24

• The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

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  Soul, Needs, Links

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

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• If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

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  Rejection, Condemnation, Ifs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Evangelistic Sermons”

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• Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

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  Jesus, Mean, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.171, Discovery House

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• O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.

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  Pride, Debtors, Proud

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• If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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  Christian, Prayer, Long

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Flower, Long

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• You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.498, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

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  Men, Thinking, Littles

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 4”, p.10, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.

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  Easter, Punishment, Sorrow

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.360, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

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  Character, Hatred, Saving

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

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• When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.

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  Believe, Men, Voice

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• 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.

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  Christian, Book, Years

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027”, p.762, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

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  Stones, Trouble, Burden

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

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  Hands, Soul, Half

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• It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

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  Christian, Blessing, Land

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• I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

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  Pain, Grace, Bed

  Charles H. Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons on Great Prayers of the Bible”, Kregel Academic

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• May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

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  Writing, Character, Rocks

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• If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Abiding

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.35, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

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  Prayer, Differences, People

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• No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

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  Pride, Discipline, Matter

  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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• The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

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  Winning, Men, Gambling

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 67: Autobiography Vol. 2”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A child's cry touches a father's heart.

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  Children, Dad, Father

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2484, Bible Study Steps

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• He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, World

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.40

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• We want to assure you...that if you seek Him you will find Him. Jesus casts out none who come unto Him.

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  Jesus, Want, Casts

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