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A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Charles Spurgeon
Sheep, Church, Shepherds

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Light, Church

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

Charles Spurgeon
Wise, Laughing, Church

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon
People, Giving, Church

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Church, World
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.278, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Charles Spurgeon
Church, World, Likes

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Charles Spurgeon
Church, Chapel, My Friends
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.768, Barbour Publishing

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Charles Spurgeon
Names, Church, Prejudice
Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Charles Spurgeon
Church, Missionary, World

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, People, Church
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.228, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

Charles Spurgeon
Thinking, People, Church

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Charles Spurgeon
Perfect, Church, Sin

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Prayer, Church

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Men, Church
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.847, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

Charles Spurgeon
Two, Church, World

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Firsts

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Church, Majority

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

Charles Spurgeon
Bible, Church, Christ

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Neglect
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

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Machinery

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

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Treasure

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Charles Spurgeon
Sleep, Soul, Church
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.398, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Charles Spurgeon
Should Have, Perfect, Church
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

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Church, Reason
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.719, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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