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
punishment joy endless
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
thinking doe scripture
The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
prayer nine neglect
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
study closets instructors
The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.
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The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.
men hands lovely
To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.
soul church saving
A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.
heaven elements flow
There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
christian hands black
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
christian honest kind
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.
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Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
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I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.
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The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.