Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

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If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

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Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

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There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

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The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

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Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

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Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

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A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

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That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

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The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

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Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

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Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

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Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

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I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

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

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

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

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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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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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"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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