Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 49

• It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Suffering, Doubt

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.107, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Christ

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• J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Champion, Best Of Me

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• The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Giving, Miracle

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• Never be afraid of your Bibles.

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• I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  "Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon".

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Soap

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Learning, School

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.255, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Cutting, Pieces

  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 man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Men, Trying

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• The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bankers, Lord, Should

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• To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Sea, People

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• The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Doctrine, Discourse

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.73, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Devil, Found

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

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• When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Praying, Mercy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.51, YWAM Publishing

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• This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Knowing, Acting, Receiving

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.28

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• I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

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  Distance, Lying, Night

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• For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fall, Christianity, Danger

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• Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

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  Easter, Heart, Sorrow

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• The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

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  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

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  Jesus, Hard Work, Great Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1396, Barbour Publishing

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• A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

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  Wise, Steps, Lord

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.982, Discovery House

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• Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

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  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2013). “Faith's Checkbook”, p.192, Moody Publishers

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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