Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
Charles HaddonSpurgeonwas a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth19 June 1834
character writing rocks
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!
christ sinfulness form
There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.
laughter littles rotten
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
law grace holy
They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.
heart grace honey
When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.
heaven trials
In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.
men long firsts
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
humble pride self
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair
sleep soul church
The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.
real muse ought
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
feet sin crosses
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
delight holiness pleasure
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
prayer heart ghost
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.