Quotes by Charles H. Spurgeon

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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 loo...

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The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Charles H. Spurgeon

His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!

Charles H. Spurgeon

We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.

Charles H. Spurgeon

WI have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.

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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hy...

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If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

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Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

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I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

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O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not c...

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Tomorrow is red with the blood of murdered resolutions.

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Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to cor...

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Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

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Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

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The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty years, I hope you are not so fooli...

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The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

Charles H. Spurgeon