Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

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  Art, Prayer, Spirit

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• Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

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  Temptation, Idle, Industrious

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• Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

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  Mother, Nurse, Grace

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

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• To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

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  Jesus, Unions, Truth Is

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• If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

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  Jesus, World, Salvation

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.32, 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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• Sleepy Christian, let me shout in thine ears: thou are sleeping while souls are being lost, sleeping while men are being damned, sleeping while hell is being peopled, sleeping while Christ is being dishonored, sleeping while the devil is grinning at thy sleepy face, sleeping while demons are dancing round thy slumbering carcass, and telling it in hell that a Christian is asleep. You will never catch the devil asleep; let not the devil catch you asleep. Watch, and be sober, that ye may be always up to do your duty.

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  Christian, Sleep, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Spurgeon's Gems: Being Brilliant Passages from the Discourses of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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• This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

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  Men, Grace, Covenant

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.201, Lulu.com

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• Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

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  Christian, Heaven, Grace

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• If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

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  Kings, Becoming, Ministers

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• We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.722, Discovery House

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• Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides.

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  Jesus, Heart, Faithful

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• Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

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  Prayer, Heart, Ghost

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Day by Day with C.H. Spurgeon”, p.76, Kregel Publications

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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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• It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

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  Heart, Christianity, Brows

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1230, Discovery House

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• Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

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  Hands, Grace, Mouths

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• There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.42, Destiny Image Publishers

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• None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

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  Arrogance, Unjust, Opinion

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.366, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

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  Believe, Should Have, Special

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.277, Zondervan

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• Faith is reason at rest in God.

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  Reason

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• Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

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  Mean, Men, Coward

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• God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

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  Home, Somewhere Else, Giving

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

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• God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.

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  Book, Thinking, Complaining

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• Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

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  Christian, Critics, Inconsistent

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