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
wise heart hands
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.
winning men two
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
jesus worship-music heaven
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
jesus men grace
I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, 'If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.'
kindness men world
No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
running children father
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.
lions
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
divorce married sin
Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.
christian heaven grace
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
giving ministry missionary
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
adversity blessing prosperity
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
christian jesus heart
Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.
dying sincere repentance
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
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Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.