Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.
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To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
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Socrates used to say, Philosophers can be happy without music; and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .
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Heart language is logic set on fire.
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O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?
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Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
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A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!
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The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
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We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.
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Give yourself to reading.'... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
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Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.
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Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
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If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.
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There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.
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As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.
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Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.
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A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.
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Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
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There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases.
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