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
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O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!
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I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.
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Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
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Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
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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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The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!
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Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
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Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
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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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Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.
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We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
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The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.
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It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.
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No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.