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
soul firsts winner
You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.
soul firsts winner
Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.
feet goes-on firsts
Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
prayer church firsts
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
firsts glory
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
names church firsts
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
moving grace firsts
True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.
heart broken firsts
The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
firsts christ salvation
The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
knowing acting firsts
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
cutting stones firsts
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
christian world firsts
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
men firsts looks
...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.