Top 14 Charles Simeon Quotes

#1. Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

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#2. No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

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#3. Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

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#4. The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

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#5. The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

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#6. With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

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#7. We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.

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#8. You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

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#9. Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

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#10. However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling.

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#11. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

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#12. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

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#13. Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

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#14. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

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