Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

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The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

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The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

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If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

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Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

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Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

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Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

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Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

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A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

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When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

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No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

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Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

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When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

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Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

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Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

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There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

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Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

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To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

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There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak,
but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

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If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

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I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

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Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.

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In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

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Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it... That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

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The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

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Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

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Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

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If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

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The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

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Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

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