Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

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Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

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Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

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The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

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If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.

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Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

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If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

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If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

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There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

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I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.

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The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

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The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

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There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

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Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R's,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

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Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

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Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

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The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

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He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

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I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

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God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.

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Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

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I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

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Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

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The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

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If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

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There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

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Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

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You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

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