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
christ ifs
If Christ be anything, He must be everything.
forget finishers
We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.
giving shining lamps
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
wonder
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.
long trials may
FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
church christ
Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.
humble holy
The more holy, the more humble.
thinking ifs
If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.
believe destiny facts
Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.
mean men coward
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
men made god-image
Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.
men
Where God works, He works with men that work.
wise kings men
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
men growing christ
The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.