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
apparent means minds power retain rome three
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
mean men coward
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
mean grace growth
Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!
mean calvinism all-things
To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.
mean men pieces
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
fall mean secret
My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil.
mean grace salvation
Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.
jesus mean may
Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.
mean forever may
From the descent of the Holy Spirit at the beginning we may learn something concerning His operations at the present time. Remember at the outset that whatever the Holy Spirit was at the first, He is that now, for as God, He remains forever the same-whatever He did then He is able to do still, for His power is by no means diminished.
giving-up mean idols
If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.
mean reactionaries fanaticism
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
mean doe lord
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.
mean promise needs
I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.
mean together stuff
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.