Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

Charles Spurgeon
We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.

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To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

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"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

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When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song,

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The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

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Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

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There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

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The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

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Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.

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Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

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FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

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Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

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If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

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Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

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Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

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When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

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God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.

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The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.

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I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

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It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

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Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

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If you were God's children you would loathe the very thought of the world's evil joys, and your question would not be, How far may we be like the world? but your one cry would be, How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

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We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

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You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

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When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

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If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

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Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

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He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!

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