Charles Spurgeon - God Quotes

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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Charles Spurgeon
When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

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The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

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The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

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To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

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A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

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What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.

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When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.

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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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If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

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You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

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I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

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

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Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

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Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

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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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If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

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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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He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

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The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

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God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul's true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

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We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

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You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

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There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

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God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

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The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

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God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

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No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

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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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True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

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