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About Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist minister and writer.
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
“We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.”
“Of two evils choose neither.”
“Every generation needs regeneration.”
“The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.”
“Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.”
“Don't rely too much on labels,
For too often they are fables.”
For too often they are fables.”
“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”
“I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.”
“I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.”
“Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.”
“I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."”
“I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Affliction 5 quotes
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
Charles Spurgeon on Trials 3 quotes
View all 3 quotes on Trials →Charles Spurgeon on Prayer 3 quotes
“Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.”
Charles Spurgeon on Humility 2 quotes
View all 2 quotes on Humility →Charles Spurgeon on Laziness 2 quotes
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.”
Charles Spurgeon on Hypocrisy 2 quotes
“Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?”
Charles Spurgeon on Complaints 2 quotes
“From mad dogs and grumbling professors may we all be delivered, and may we never take the complaint from either of them.”
Charles Spurgeon on Sin 2 quotes
“As for our own faults, it would take a large slate to hold the account of them; but, thank God, we know where to take them, and how to get the better of them.”
Charles Spurgeon on Preaching 2 quotes
“John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.”
Charles Spurgeon on Masculinity
“A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.”
About Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist minister and writer.
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