Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

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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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

Charles Spurgeon
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

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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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A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

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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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My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

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It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

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You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

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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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Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

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It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

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If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

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Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

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The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

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We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

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Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

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Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners.

Charles Spurgeon
To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Charles Spurgeon