Charles Spurgeon Quotes (1834-1892)

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist minister and writer.

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“Women are best when they are quiet.”
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“Mind your till, and till your mind.”
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
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“We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.”
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“Of two evils choose neither.”
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.”
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“Every generation needs regeneration.”
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“Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.”
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“The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.”
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“Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.”
“Don't rely too much on labels,
For too often they are fables.”
“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
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“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”
“Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.”
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“Our great object of glorifying God is … to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls...”
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“I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.”
“God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.”
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“I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.”
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“This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.”
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“A vigorous temper is not always an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as little worth.”
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“Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.”
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“A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.”
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“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.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Trials 3 quotes

“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”
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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.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Humility 2 quotes

“The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Laziness 2 quotes

“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.”
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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?”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Joy

“There is a sweet joy which comes to us through sorrow.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Masculinity

“A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.”
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Charles Spurgeon on Patience

“The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.”
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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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