Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

Charles Spurgeon
When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

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This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

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There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

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For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

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We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

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There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

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Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

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Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

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My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

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When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

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The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

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Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

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A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

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Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

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Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

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Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

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God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

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The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

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It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

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If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

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Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

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The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

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To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

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We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

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My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil.

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A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

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He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

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I think you may judge of a man's character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

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It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

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