Charles Spurgeon Quotes

• Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

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• You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

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• The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

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• When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

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• To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

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• You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

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• If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

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• Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

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• The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

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• Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

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  The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.

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• We cannot communicate holiness, but we can communicate unholiness.

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• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

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• As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.

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• Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence.

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• I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

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• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

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  Tags in Evil, Temper, Men

• You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

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Charles Spurgeon (50)

Birth:	19th June, 1834
Death:	31st January, 1892
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Priest

About

Charles Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England. He was a British author and pastor. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more.

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