Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 17

• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Stars, Heart

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2012). “Morning by Morning for Graduates”, p.49, Hendrickson Publishers

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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 you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.626, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

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  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.35

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• We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

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  Prayer, Answers, Minutes

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.96, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

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  Christian, Sea, Grace

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.92, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

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  Men, Providence, Serving God

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Men of the Old Testament”

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• Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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  Christian, Children, Fall

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.343, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

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  Adversity, Frost, Remember

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.44, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

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  Looks, World, Christ

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• It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

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  Christian, Struggle, Names

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• Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

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  Wife, Nagging, Show Me

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• You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

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  Spiritual, Defeat, Forget

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1768, Barbour Publishing

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• Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

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  Half, Neglect, Arise

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• The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

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  Christian, Thankfulness, Should

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• Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

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  Growing, Beard, Habit

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.150, Zondervan

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• The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

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  Christian, Cutting, Climbing

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 21: Sermons 1210-1270".

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• A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Doe

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• Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

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  People, Water, Cups

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1416, Barbour Publishing

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• You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

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  Christ, Ifs

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

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• Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

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  Long, Doe, Care

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.628, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

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  Strong, Men, Weakness

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

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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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• Thankfulness makes much of little.

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  Thankfulness, Littles

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• Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

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  Evil, Sin, Good Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.433, Lulu Press, Inc

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