Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 50

• Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

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  Easter, Heart, Sorrow

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• For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

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  Fall, Christianity, Danger

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• Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

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  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

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  Jesus, Hard Work, Great Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1396, Barbour Publishing

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• The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2013). “Faith's Checkbook”, p.192, Moody Publishers

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

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  Life, Christian, Earth

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• The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. They who preach this truth preach the gospel in whatever else they may be mistaken; but they who preach not the atonement, whatever else they declare, have missed the soul and substance of the divine message.

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  Heart, Sacrifice, Essence

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

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• Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

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  Valentines Day, Benefits, Sake

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• God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

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  Christian, Foul, Ifs

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.

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• Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

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  Men, Swim, Taught

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• Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

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  Real, Loss, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

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  Temptation, Sometimes, Christ

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1679, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

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  Healing, Men, Law

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.40, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

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  Age, Amusement, Serious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• Trials teach us what we are.

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  Motivational, Trials, Teach

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves". Book by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Use of Trial", p. 41, 1869.

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• If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

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  Men, Heaven, Should

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• To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

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  God, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “Spiritual Warfare in a Believer's Life”, p.81, YWAM Publishing

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• I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

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  Yesterday, Knows

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• Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

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  Bird, Singing, Believer

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

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  Christian, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.188

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• When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

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  Writing, Men, Light

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• To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

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  Believe, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207

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• What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

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  Men, Light, Forgiving

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.69, Destiny Image Publishers

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• To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

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  Men, Suffering, Sorrow

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