Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

Charles Spurgeon
Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

Charles Spurgeon
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Charles Spurgeon
Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.

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Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

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Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

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An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

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No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

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I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

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Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Charles Spurgeon
No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Charles Spurgeon
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

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He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

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He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

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Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

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Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman's breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter's despised son.

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God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

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Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

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Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

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The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

Charles Spurgeon
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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God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save.

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The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

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We are not alarmed because Satan hinders us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord's side, and are doing the Lord's work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.

Charles Spurgeon
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

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We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

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Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

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The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

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