Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 26

• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

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  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

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  Joy, Today, Christ

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• As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

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  Doe, Atoms, Flavor

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• I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

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  Pain, Grace, Bed

  Charles H. Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons on Great Prayers of the Bible”, Kregel Academic

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• May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

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  Writing, Character, Rocks

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• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

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  Forgiveness, Blessed, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

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  Prayer, Grief, Blessing

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• You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.498, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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  Cheer, Hard Times, Talking

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.220, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

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  Evil, Would Be, Action

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.593, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

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  Done, Firsts, Christ

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.382, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

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  Perseverance, Finals, Genuine

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.118, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

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  Winning, Men, Fire

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• Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386".

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• Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

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  God, Christian, Religious

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• Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

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  Looks, World, Way

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• Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

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  Depression, Christian Inspirational, Achievement

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• Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

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  Dry, Superstitions, Belief

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• We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

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  Wall, Men, Giving

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• The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

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  Half, Praise, Blasphemy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.291

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• In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

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  Years, Generosity, Giving

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• We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

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  Brother, Wine, Yield

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• An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

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  Heart, Worst, Plague

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.817, Bible Study Steps

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• Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

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  Prayer, Chance, Habit

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.65, Discovery House

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