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
running long doubt
It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while
christian cutting ice
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.
christian men world
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.
giving way
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
giving people church
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
pain lying grief
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.
perseverance finals genuine
Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.
fear-god
He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
heart self his-love
If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
perseverance saint doctrine
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
space sublime littles
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
fashion utterance weak
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
prayer moving omnipotence
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
praying machinery praying-to-god
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.