Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Charles Spurgeon
To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Charles Spurgeon
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Charles Spurgeon
If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

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If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

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God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?

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Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

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Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

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Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

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Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

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Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

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Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

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Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

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Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

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The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

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The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

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God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

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He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

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Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

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Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

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Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

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Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

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God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

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So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

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Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Charles Spurgeon
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

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He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.

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Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

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Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.

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Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

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