Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.

Charles Spurgeon
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon
The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Charles Spurgeon
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Charles Spurgeon
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Charles Spurgeon
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

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Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

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I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

Charles Spurgeon
As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.

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See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

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We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
but, 'Is it true?'

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It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Charles Spurgeon
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

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Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

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All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

Charles Spurgeon
God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

Charles Spurgeon
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.

Charles Spurgeon
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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Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

Charles Spurgeon
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.

Charles Spurgeon
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.

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

Charles Spurgeon
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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It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

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A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

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