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
heart order rocks
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
giving people grace
If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
perseverance cat may
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
winning soul pearls
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul
joy world ends
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
forgiving may calvary
Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.
blessed sunshine wings
When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.
jesus law judging
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
emptiness christ fullness
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
sheep church goats
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
christian christian-inspirational lions
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
men mind delight
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.