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
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These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
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What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
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Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.
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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
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Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
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Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
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Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
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Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.
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When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
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You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.
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True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
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Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
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Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original