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A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Charles Spurgeon
Sheep, Church, Shepherds

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Veils, Might

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.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Christian Inspirational, Lions

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Charles Spurgeon
Stars, Children, Names
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.225, Discovery House

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Light, Church

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Charles Spurgeon
Done, Christ, Feels
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Mind, Delight

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Matter, Praying

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

Charles Spurgeon
Wise, Prayer, Heart

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Charles Spurgeon
Happiness, Christian, Religious
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.535, Discovery House

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Charles Spurgeon
Together, Ships, Speed

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Charles Spurgeon
Mind, States, State Of Mind
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.12, Barbour Publishing

If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.

Charles Spurgeon
Faith, Godly, Wish
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Charles Spurgeon
Doe, Christ, Please
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Enemy, Bones

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Differences, Matter

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

Charles Spurgeon
Wise, Laughing, Church

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Thinking, Ill

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Charles Spurgeon
Gods Will
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Charles Spurgeon
Wonder, Made, Should

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Prayer, Motivation
Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Anvils, Opinion

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, May, Knows
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1055, Discovery House

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Men, Pieces
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.707, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

Charles Spurgeon
Yield, Hands, Weakness

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