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When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Charles Spurgeon
Desire, Alive, Sin
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.381, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Charles Spurgeon
Book, Wings, Singing
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5091, Bible Study Steps

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Charles Spurgeon
Husband, Father, Book

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Charles Spurgeon
Holiness, Temples, Plans
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", (p. 369), 1922.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Charles Spurgeon
Play, Skills, Needs
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.300, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

Charles Spurgeon
Depression, Joy, Excess
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.192, Zondervan

Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'

Charles Spurgeon
Strong, Men, Needs
Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Charles Spurgeon
Inspire, Church, Causes

There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Men, Thinking

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, May, Deny
Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.160, Lulu.com

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Charles Spurgeon
Strong, Passion, Men
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.249, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Charles Spurgeon
Passion, Crosses, Eyeballs
Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.

Charles Spurgeon
Depression, Jesus, Heart

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

Charles Spurgeon
Angel, Heaven, Sin
Charles Spurgeon, Alexander Maclaren, Thomas Manton (2015). “The Biblical Illustrator - Vol. 62 - Pastoral Commentary on 2 Peter”, p.267, Primedia eLaunch

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon
Giving, Way
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

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

Charles Spurgeon
Book, Reading, Pride

Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Believe, Eye

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon
Finals, May, Tomorrow

It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for the Infinite to conceive of such a thing; but for him to carry it out was glorious beyond all.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Giving, Sin
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.704, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Heart, Giving
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon
Life, Would Be, Bears
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884). “John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume”

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Charles Spurgeon
Wells, Prodigals
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.315, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Heart, Doctrine

I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Heart, Men
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.502, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Charles Spurgeon
Ideas, Good Work, Saved
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.197

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