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
joy world ends
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
winning soul pearls
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul
perseverance cat may
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
giving people grace
If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
prayer long peril
All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.
heart order rocks
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
desire praying mercy
When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
lying light world
If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
omnipotence lord burden
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.
teaching fuel sound
Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.
hypocrite matter easy
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
use lord preacher
I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.
humility men thinking
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.