Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 54

• Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Army

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• We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Stories, He Man

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.14, Zondervan

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• The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, May, Helping

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.121, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Blood, Two

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1961). “Sermons on Soul Winning”

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• Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Thinking, Progress

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• Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Memories, Blessed

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.31, Whitaker House

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• The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Ministry, Easy

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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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• Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Jerusalem, Praying

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.366, Bible Study Steps

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• The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Eye, Biblical

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• The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Scotland, Rough Edges, Doctrine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.56, Barbour Publishing

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• Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Self, White, Black

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.444

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• He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, Lost

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• Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Pennies, Jingles

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.90, Whitaker House

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• Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Three, Religious Education

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1995). “Spiritual Parenting”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.79, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Philosophy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.131, Barbour Publishing

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• Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Sovereign, Sin

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.541, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Men, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.43, Whitaker House

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• When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Blessed, Grateful

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• If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Cutting, Scripture, Ifs

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• Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child's play.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Play, Miracle

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• The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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• You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Needs, Christ

  Charles, Spurgeon H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Alive, Sin

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.381, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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