Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 35

• There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

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  Jesus, Dying, Add

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.786, Discovery House

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• There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

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  Prayer, Praise, Should

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2046, Bible Study Steps

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• He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

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  Men, Humanity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.43, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

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  Blessed, Grace, Sin

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• Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Warrior

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.94, YWAM Publishing

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• The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

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  Dark, Men, Sight

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• True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.28, Whitaker House

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• A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

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  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2004). “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus”, p.294, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

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  Christian, Ambition, Faithful

  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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• The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

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  Soul, Sorrow, Comfort

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.381, Discovery House

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• If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

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  Kings, Missionary, Christianity

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• Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

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  Trust, Disappointment, Needs

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.199, Zondervan

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• Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

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  Christian, Believe, Eye

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• There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

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  Suffering, Earth, Sickness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

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  Winning, Soul, Hazards

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.272, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

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  Believe, Men, Kind

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

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  Hate, Thinking, Errors

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• Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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  Waiting, Ifs

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• The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.

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  Betrayal, Evil, May

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• To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

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  Determined, Sin, Christ

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.662, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

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  Men, Soul, Deities

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.132, Barbour Publishing

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• There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

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  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.130

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• We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

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  Order, Waiting, World

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

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• Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

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  Atheism, Divine, Sovereignty

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