Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

Charles Spurgeon
I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Charles Spurgeon
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

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Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

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True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

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He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

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The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

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I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

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You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

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Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

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As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

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All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

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The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

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Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

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When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

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We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

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The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

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There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

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You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

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If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

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Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

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There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

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The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

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Ah! dear friend,
you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Charles Spurgeon
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

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Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

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We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

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If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

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The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

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