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The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Charles Spurgeon
Wheels, Infinite, Providence
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.71

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Men, Trifles

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Charles Spurgeon
Hurt, Cat, Men
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 72: John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.85, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Hands, Feet

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Thinking, People
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.382, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Charles Spurgeon
Cheer, Spirit, Hundred
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.187, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Heart, Eye
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

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Affliction, Body
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “Sermons on the Book of Revelation”

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon
Keys, Imagination, Mind
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1433, Barbour Publishing

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon
Christ, Conviction, Backbone
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.756, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

Charles Spurgeon
Two, People, Heaven
Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1546, New Leaf Publishing Group

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon
Religious, Jesus, Thinking
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.120, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Mind, Gone
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

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Charles Spurgeon
Mistake, Thinking, Saving
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.140

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon
Art, Children, Crowns
Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Law, Able
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

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Charles Spurgeon
Mark, Providence, Ifs
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Jesus, Jesus Christ

Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.

Charles Spurgeon
Sin, Lord, Stills

The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Heart, Love Is
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

Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

Charles Spurgeon
Father, Giving, Ungrateful
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

Charles Spurgeon
Rain, Clouds, People
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.61

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Charles Spurgeon
Book, Inspiration, Laughing
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.62, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Charles Spurgeon
Remember, Lord, Divine

A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Arrows, People
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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