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
god christian religious
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not.
christian religious jesus
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous
god christian religious
God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.
god christian religious
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
god christian religious
We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
god christian religious
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
faith religious men
Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.
faith religious heart
It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".
encouragement gratitude religious
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.
religious real deeds-done
I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell
god christian religious
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
god christian religious
He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.