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Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Men, Coward

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Charles Spurgeon
Patience, Patient, Should
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Charles Spurgeon
Dog, Winning, Soul
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Charles Spurgeon
Yesterday, Sin, Mercy

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

Charles Spurgeon
Garments, Ends, Filthy

The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Looks, Salvation
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.995, Discovery House

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Grace, Honey

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Flower, Long

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

Charles Spurgeon
Motivation, Inspiration, Fighting
"Morning and Evening".

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon
Perfect, Waiting, Heaven
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Sermons: 10th series”

Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

Charles Spurgeon
Spiritual, Heart, Trying

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Charles Spurgeon
Lying, Believe, Men
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.533, Barbour Publishing

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Charles Spurgeon
Wisdom, Knowledge, Use
"In a World Of...friends, Foes & Fools". Book by James Merritt, 2008.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Charles Spurgeon
Inspirational, Attitude, World
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.40

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Charles Spurgeon
Rejection, Condemnation, Ifs
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Evangelistic Sermons”

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

Charles Spurgeon
Children, Dad, Father
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2484, Bible Study Steps

A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Grace, 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

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Blessing, Land

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Would Be, Holiness

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Charles Spurgeon
Men, March, Gods Will
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.189, Barbour Publishing

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Book, Years
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027”, p.762, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

Charles Spurgeon
War, Winning, Men

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Prayer, Long

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon
Hands, Soul, Half

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Thinking, Littles
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 4”, p.10, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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