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
christian should models
The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.
prayer heart ghost
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.
gods-faithfulness unfaithful sin
The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.
delight holiness pleasure
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
feet sin crosses
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.
real muse ought
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
sleep soul church
The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.
humble pride self
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair
men long firsts
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
heaven trials
In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.
strong men world
Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.
law grace holy
They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.
laughter littles rotten
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.