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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Charles Spurgeon
Faith, Character, Conformity

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Charles Spurgeon
Heaven, Grace, Promise
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1055, Discovery House

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Charles Spurgeon
Littles, Way, Deals

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Charles Spurgeon
Friendship, Relationship, Joy

Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Law, Finals

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon
Flower, Giving, Perfume
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.39, Barbour Publishing

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

Charles Spurgeon
Depression, Jesus, Heart

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.384, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Charles Spurgeon
Liberty, Cost, May

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon
Trust, Disappointment, Needs
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.199, Zondervan

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Doctrine, Good Work

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

Charles Spurgeon
Lions, Cages, Caged

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

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

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Charles Spurgeon
Order, Waiting, World
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
Determined, Sin, Christ
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Cities, People
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.109, Barbour Publishing

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Feet, Mind
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 religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Charles Spurgeon
Laughter, Rotten, Littles

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Holiness, God Love
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1495, Barbour Publishing

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Jesus
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.36, Barbour Publishing

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Charles Spurgeon
Latin, Believe, Superstitions

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Worry, Would Be

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

Charles Spurgeon
Philosophy, War, Fall
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

Charles Spurgeon
Book, Views, Dust

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Charles Spurgeon
Light, Israel, Waste
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.194, Zondervan

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