Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

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A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

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The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

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

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

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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.

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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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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!

Charles Spurgeon
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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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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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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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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