Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Charles Spurgeon
The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Charles Spurgeon
Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

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The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Charles Spurgeon
The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

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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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If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

Charles Spurgeon
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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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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We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

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He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

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Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

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Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!

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My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Charles Spurgeon
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.

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

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
When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.

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The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

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

Charles Spurgeon