Charles Spurgeon - Christ Quotes

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If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

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A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable....

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If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

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

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

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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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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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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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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 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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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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