Top 100 Charles Spurgeon Quotes
#1. Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!
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#2. Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.
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#3. Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
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#4. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
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#5. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
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#6. I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man's heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.
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#7. Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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#8. I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
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#9. Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.
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#10. The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! "You are the light of the world."
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#11. We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.
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#12. Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
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#13. The power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.
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#14. Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
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#15. Oh, to have "the word of Christ" always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!
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#16. Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.
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#17. If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
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#18. The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
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#19. The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
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#21. None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
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#22. It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for the Infinite to conceive of such a thing; but for him to carry it out was glorious beyond all.
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#23. Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
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#24. Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
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#25. I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.
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#26. I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.
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#27. A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
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#28. However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
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#29. Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
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#31. When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
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#33. When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
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#34. Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.
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#35. It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
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#36. I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, 'If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.'
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#37. The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
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#38. Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.
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#39. Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.
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#40. 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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#41. Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.
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#42. I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace.
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#43. Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
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#44. Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.
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#45. A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.
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#46. If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
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#47. I will do as much as I can, says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it.
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#48. Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.
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#49. It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
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#50. When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
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#51. I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.
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#52. Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
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#54. The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.
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#56. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.
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#57. 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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#58. When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
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#59. If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.
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#60. Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .
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#61. Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
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#62. Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
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#64. The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
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#65. I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
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#66. We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.
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#67. To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.
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#68. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
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#69. If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
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#70. The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
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#71. If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
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#72. To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.
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#73. It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.
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#74. Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.
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#75. So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
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#76. We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.
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#77. Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
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#78. The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
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#79. We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.
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#80. He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.
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#81. Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.
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#83. When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.
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#84. As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.
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#86. None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.
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#87. Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.
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#88. Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
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#89. The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.
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#90. The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
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#91. Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
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#92. The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
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#93. Having made Jesus your all, you shall find your all in Jesus.
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#94. Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'
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#95. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
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#96. Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.
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#97. The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.
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#98. As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.
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#99. It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
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#100. Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!
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