Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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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.

Charles Spurgeon
The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Charles Spurgeon
If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

Charles Spurgeon
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

Charles Spurgeon
A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

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A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

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Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

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A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable....

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Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon
It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

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So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon
Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

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Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

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The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

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May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

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I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Charles Spurgeon
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

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For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

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My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

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Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

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Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

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We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

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When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

Charles Spurgeon
I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Charles Spurgeon
Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

Charles Spurgeon
When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

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This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

Charles Spurgeon