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
play eternity preaching
We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.
preparation casting emptiness
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
heaven crowns crosses
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
men blood may
There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.
hardship pancakes eating
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.
prayer church neglect
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
doe affliction
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
prayer tears repentance
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
mistake errors bears
We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
voice awe
To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe
spiritual prayer heart
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.
life-is hours ends
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
married sin christ
You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.
covenant loving-god bounds
Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.