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
delight ifs settings
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
sacrifice men blessing
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
taken grieving giving
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.
mistake thinking saving
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
men champion best-of-me
J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.
jesus heart glory
Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.
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Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.
lying selfish world
Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.
block causes christ
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!
christian feet repentance
The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
heart thinking giving
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.
christ immortal working-it
It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
temptation sometimes christ
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.