Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 39

• I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Teaching, Taught

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

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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. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Names, Heaven

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

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• If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

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  Jesus, Blessing, Perfect

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.444, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

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  Character, Way, Certain

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.408

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• If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

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  Perseverance, Saint, Doctrine

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.337

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• FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

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  Long, Trials, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.54, Barbour Publishing

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• The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.

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  Jesus, Taken, Promise

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• Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ignorance, Dwelling Place, Darkness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2589, Bible Study Steps

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• Men to be truly won must be won by truth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men

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• It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

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  Jesus, Believe, Joy

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• The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Mind, Rags

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Belief

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341".

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• You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

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  Christ, Mercy, Drag

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.728

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• Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.

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  Jesus, Easter, Land

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.177, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

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  Heart, Character, Men

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• You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

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  Men, Profound, Doubt

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• Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

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  Humility, Men, Thinking

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.39

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• Fiery trials make golden Christians.

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  Christian, Trials, Golden

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• As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ocean, Gnats, Would Be

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.82, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

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  Jehovah, Eternal Life, Equal

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2096, Bible Study Steps

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• I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

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  Believe, Giving, Water

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1397, Barbour Publishing

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• If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

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  Fire, Law, Broken

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• An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

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  Laughter, Men, Evil

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.716, Discovery House

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• I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

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  Believe, Order, Worship

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.506

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• If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

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  Evil, Would Be, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power in Praising God”, Whitaker Distribution

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