Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 52

• After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

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  Brother, Twins, Repentance

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

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  Christian, Temptation, Satan

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

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  Believe, Men, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.316, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

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  Perfect, Church, Should

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• Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

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  Heart, Loses

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• I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

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  Rich, Poor, My Own

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

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  Prayer, Asking, Kingdoms

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

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  Doors, Luck, Doe

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• I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.

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  Prayer, Believe, Practice

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• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

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  Bible, Christian, Fall

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

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  Philosophy, Simple, Christianity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

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  Patience, Blow, Tyrants

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

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  Desire, Holiness, Repentance

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• Come my, heart, up and away!

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  Heart, My Heart

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• A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

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  Prayer, Soul, Christ

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.2, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

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  Mean, Grace, Salvation

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.9, Destiny Image Publishers

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• There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.

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  Strong, Men, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 18), 1895.

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

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  Brother, Men, Names

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• If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

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  People, Giving, Grace

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.67, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

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  Essence, News, World

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.9, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

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  Years, Preparation, Left

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• It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?

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  Kings, Winning, Long

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.1040, CCEL

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• It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

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  Reading, Age, Praying

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• You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.

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  Errors, Events, Chance

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

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  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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