Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 51

• Trials teach us what we are.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Trials, Teach

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves". Book by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Use of Trial", p. 41, 1869.

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• I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Yesterday, Knows

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• Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bird, Singing, Believer

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.188

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• When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

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  Writing, Men, Light

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• The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Ephesians, Verbs

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• Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Purpose

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• After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Twins, Repentance

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Holiness, Repentance

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• Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Grace, Salvation

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.9, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loses

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• I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rich, Poor, My Own

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• If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.316, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Philosophy, Simple, Christianity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Blow, Tyrants

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• Come my, heart, up and away!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, My Heart

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• A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Soul, Christ

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.2, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

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  Perfect, Church, Should

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• Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

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  Jesus, Heart, Glory

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• I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

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  Believe, Men, Law

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• Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eternity, Believer

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.562, Discovery House

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• Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grateful, Heaven, Sublime

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.3547, Bible Study Steps

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• Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  World, Causes, Christ

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