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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I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
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You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
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Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
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If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
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If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
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He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
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Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
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We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.
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Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.
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It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
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Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
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A child's cry touches a father's heart.