Top 100 Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes
#1. Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless His name all the day, and every day.
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#3. We must not forget that the gospel of Christ is holy. It never excuses sin: it pardons it, but only through an atonement. If
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#6. He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
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#7. The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
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#8. If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.
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#9. There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him.
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#11. Man ate angels' food of old - and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
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#12. Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.
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#13. If you would strew your path with thorns, and plant nettles in your death-pillow, then neglect to "hate evil".
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#15. O, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's own elect ones, who has had communion with Christ and leaned his head upon Jesus' bosom.
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#16. If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.
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#18. There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.
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#20. Redeeming love has set apart many of the worst of mankind - to be the reward of the Savior's passion. Effectual
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#21. I trust Him for what He is, for what He has done, and for what He has promised still to do.
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#22. Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
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#23. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.
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#24. You did not hide Your face from shame and spitting, O Lord Jesus, and therefore I will find my dearest delight in praising You. Your
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#25. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. - Isaiah 7:14
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#27. There is salvation for lost and ruined men by faith in the blood and in the obedience of him who died upon the tree, and is now enthroned in the highest place in heaven. - James
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#28. Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires; No God is like the God my soul desires; He at whose voice heaven trembles, even He, Great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.
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#29. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and
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#30. If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
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#32. Jesus is the good Shepherd going before His sheep, bidding them follow Him, and ever leading them onwards with the sweet word, Come.
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#33. The Saviour is, by His Spirit, still on earth; let this cheer us. He is ever in the midst of the fight, and therefore the battle is not doubtful.
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#34. Advance beyond these dreary "ifs;" abide no more in the wilderness of doubts and fears; cross the Jordan of distrust, and enter the Canaan of peace, where the Canaanite still lingers, but where the land ceaseth not to flow with milk and honey.
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#35. Our safety lies, not in making terms with the enemy, but in dwelling alone with our best Friend.
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#37. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer
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#38. If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that He would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my soul, till God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe.
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#40. Wise men can learn as much from a fool as from a philosopher. A fool is a splendid book to read from, because every leaf is open before you; there is a dash of the comic in the style, which entices you to read on, and if you gather nothing else, you are warned not to publish your own folly.
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#41. None but God would have ever thought of justifying such a man as Saul the persecutor; but the Lord God is glorious in grace.
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#43. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
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#44. A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering.
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#46. We must have faith, for this is the foundation; we must have holiness of life, for this is the superstructure.
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#48. Keep back no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know, and testify what you have seen. Let not the toil or darkness, or possible unbelief of your friends, weigh one moment in the scale. Up, and be marching to the place of duty, and there tell what great things God has shown to your soul.
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#49. My soul has tasted of the grapes, And now it longs to go Where my dear Lord His vineyard keeps And all the clusters grow. Upon the true and living vine, My famish'd soul would feast, And banquet on the fruit divine, An everlasting guest.
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#50. Our meat and our drink, like His, is to do the will of Him who hath sent us and to finish His work.
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#51. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints
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#53. The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped.
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#54. Jesus has the dew of His youth upon Him. Others grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His throne, world without end.
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#55. coming to Christ! And until these are opened by the sweet influences of the Divine Spirit, they must be forever closed to anything like coming to Christ. DEPRAVED AFFECTIONS
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#56. 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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#58. Even so we need the superstructure of spiritual life if we would have comfort in the day of doubt. But seek not a holy life without faith, for that would be to erect a house which can afford no permanent shelter, because it has no foundation on a rock.
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#60. Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.
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#61. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed, lapping at them, as the classic proverb puts it; "As the dogs drink of Nilus." Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
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#62. To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation;
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#64. The wavering heart must have a straight path of decision for God and holiness marked out for it. Double-minded men are strangers to the God of truth.
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#66. A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; He must be loved first and best.
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#67. If, then, yours is a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will be better able to display the all-sufficient grace of God. As
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#68. It shall never be said that God dishonours His bills. The credit of the Most High never was impeached, and never shall be. He is punctual to the moment: He never is before His time, but He never is behind it.
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#70. No man of God need be astonished at slander, as though some strange thing had happened unto him, for the best servants of God have been subject to that trial.
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#71. There may come other days, when the many will crowd the narrow way; but, at this time, to be popular one must be broad - broad in doctrine, in morals, and in spirituals. But those on the strait road shall go straight to glory, and those on the broad road are all abroad.
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#73. Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and consecrated the thorny path for ever.
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#75. There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
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#76. It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort;
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#77. The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart. -Charles Spurgeon
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#78. The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
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#79. In our troubles how constantly do we strive to bear our burdens ourselves, instead of casting them upon the Lord, that He may sustain us!
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#80. If you want to feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before, what a weak, unworthy thing you are. Although
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#81. You are standing at the foot of His cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in Him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that.
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#82. The Holy Spirit, who enabled me to believe, gave me peace through believing. I felt as sure that I was forgiven as before I felt sure of condemnation.
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#83. Not what I have, but what I have not, is the first point of contact, between my soul and God.
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#84. Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.
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#86. Proclaim aloud the Saviour's fame, Who bears the Breaker's wond'rous name; Sweet name; and it becomes him well, Who breaks down earth, sin, death, and hell.
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#87. Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word
Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire.
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#88. Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.
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#89. There is a something in the very tone of the man who has been with Jesus which has more power to touch the heart than the most perfect oratory:
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#90. How many adorn their temples, and decorate their priests - but refuse to obey the Word of the Lord!
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#91. Let us chide ourselves for past forgetfulness, and pray for grace ever to bear Him in fondest remembrance. Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image of Thy Son.
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#94. If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.
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#96. Our Heavenly Father does not usually cause us to seek the Savior till He has whipped us clean out of all our confidence; He cannot make us in earnest after Heaven till He has made us feel something of the intolerable tortures of an aching conscience, which is a foretaste of hell.
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#97. God fills the whole universe, and hence there is no room for another god; if, then, He reigns in my heart, there will be no space for another reigning power.
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#98. Frequently He "carries" them by giving them a very simple faith, which takes the promise just as it stands, and believingly runs with every trouble straight to Jesus. The simplicity of their faith gives them an unusual degree of confidence, which carries them above the world.
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#99. God's way must be the best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will be truly wise.
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#100. Faith, again, is doubless selected because it gives all the glory to God. It is of faith that it might be of grace, and it is of grace that there might be no boasting, for God cannot endure pride. "The proud he knoweth afar off". Psalm 138:6
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