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We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Answers, Minutes
Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.96, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

Charles Spurgeon
Thinking, Ifs

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Charles Spurgeon
True Friend, Ambition, Character
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Harvest Time, Suffering

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon
Heaven, Soul, Hell
Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1783, New Leaf Publishing Group

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Work, Christian Inspirational

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

Charles Spurgeon
Blessed, Eye, Fire

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Charles Spurgeon
Thinking, Joy, Suffering

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

Charles Spurgeon
Christ, Ifs
Charles, Spurgeon H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Christianity, Brows
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1230, Discovery House

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Critics, Inconsistent

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon
Years, Soul, Would Be

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.

Charles Spurgeon
Delight, Ifs, Settings

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Men, Christ

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Charles Spurgeon
Depression, Wise, Strong
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.186, Zondervan

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Charles Spurgeon
Children, Godly, Men
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.362, Hendrickson Publishers

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon
Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Worst, Plague
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.817, Bible Study Steps

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Charles Spurgeon
Soul, Needs, Links
Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

Charles Spurgeon
Character, Hatred, Saving
Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Charles Spurgeon
Praying, Machinery, Praying To God

O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.

Charles Spurgeon
Pride, Debtors, Proud

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.

Charles Spurgeon
Easter, Punishment, Sorrow
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.360, Hendrickson Publishers

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Machinery

If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Important, Ease
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

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