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
jesus mind lunatic-asylums
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
jesus heart men
Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).
jesus heart men
I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!
jesus giving miracle
The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.
trying want scripture
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
christian harvest-time suffering
Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.
art prayer hate
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.
motivational strength fear
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
inspirational motivational perseverance
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
recovery damaged-goods goods
We are all damaged goods in recovery.
heart worst plague
An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.
trying littles reason-why
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
heaven trying paper
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
thinking hands trying
It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.