Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 33

• Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

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  Bible, Heart, Biblical

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

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• The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

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  Depression, Doors, Iron

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• The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

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  Pride, Demon, Hours

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.642, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

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  Spring, Believe, Calvinism

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.536, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

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  Men, Individuality, Ark

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• Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

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  Looks, World, Lines

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• Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

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  Hypocrite, Men, Hypocrisy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

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  Pity, Figures, Should

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• The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

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  Jesus, Blood, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.181, Bridge Logos Inc

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• The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

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  Heart, Worst, Treachery

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

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  Book, Views, Dust

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• A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

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  Laughter, Rotten, Littles

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• Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

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  Integrity, Lying, Sin

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.984, Discovery House

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• If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

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  Prayer, Needs, Said

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Colossians”, p.22, Ravenio Books

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• Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Names

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

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  Easter, Heart, Sacrifice

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.477, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

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  Bible, Christian, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I”, p.309

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• Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

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  Teaching, Sound, Fuel

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.74, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

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  Kindness, Heart, Soul

  "The Soul-Winner; or, How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour" by Charles Spurgeon, 1895.

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• If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Idols

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• Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

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  Prayer, Nine, Neglect

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• Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

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  Song, Grace, Rehearsal

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

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  Lying, Rocks, Two

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• There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

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  Men, Years, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.28, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.

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  Believe, Heart, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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