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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Charles Spurgeon
Life Is, Hours, Ends
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Broken, Water

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious
"The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386".

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Spurgeon
Wall, Men, Giving

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Sea, Joy
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.671, Discovery House

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Charles Spurgeon
Cheer, Hard Times, Talking
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.220, Lulu Press, Inc

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

Charles Spurgeon
Evil, Would Be, Action
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.593, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Charles Spurgeon
Music Is
Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power in Praising God”, Whitaker Distribution

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

Charles Spurgeon
Blessing, Clouds, Yield
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.110, Barbour Publishing

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Children, Wings
Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon
Looks, Sin
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1965). “Revival Sermons”

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Broken, Firsts
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.101, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon
Grace, Receiving, Saving

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon
Looks, World, Way

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.498, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Charles Spurgeon
Church, Would Be, Doing Good

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon
Reason Why, Lord, Virtuous

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Needs, Said
Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Colossians”, p.22, Ravenio Books

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Charles Spurgeon
Business, Men, Religion
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1427, Barbour Publishing

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Providence, Serving God
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Men of the Old Testament”

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

Charles Spurgeon
Weed, Missionary, Doe
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

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon
Lions, Scripture, Heard

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Blood, Law
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.181, Bridge Logos Inc

God is with us, and His power is around us.

Charles Spurgeon
God Is With Us

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