Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 23

• Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Yesterday, Sin, Mercy

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• Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

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  Sacrifice, Lovely, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.685, Barbour Publishing

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• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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  Happiness, Success, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

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  Remember, Foolish, Gentle

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

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  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

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  Mean, Calvinism, All Things

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• Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

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  Sin, Trifles, Has Beens

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.684, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. And if you are lost trusting in Christ, I will be lost with you and will go to hell with you. I must do so, for I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God.

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  Jesus, Son, Hands

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• If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

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  Damn You, Pageantry, Doe

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

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  Soul, Needs, Links

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

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• You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

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  Like You, Salvation, Savior

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• A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

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  Christian, Blessing, Land

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• When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

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  Heart, Grace, Honey

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• To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

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  Men, Dresses, Different

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.266, Discovery House

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• If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

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  Jesus, Passion, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.725, Discovery House

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• Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Son

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

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• Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

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  Men, Medicine, Age

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• All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

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  Prayer, Long, Peril

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.204

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• Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

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  Self Confidence, Thinking, Armor

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Day by Day with C.H. Spurgeon”, p.199, Kregel Publications

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• Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

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  Doe, Affliction

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

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  Teacher, Children, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.462, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We want to assure you...that if you seek Him you will find Him. Jesus casts out none who come unto Him.

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  Jesus, Want, Casts

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• If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

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  Years, Soul, Would Be

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• Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

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  Giving, May, Causes

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

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  Teaching, Sticks, Blisters

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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