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C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861 the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

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CROSS, THE

The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is builded with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly cordials is founded upon the riven rock, riven by the spear which pierced its side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere ... Read More

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CULTURE

Time impairs all things, the fashion becomes obsolete and passes away. TD102:26 How many of you look around on society to know what to do; you watch the general current, and then float upon it; you study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so. You ask—Is it fashionabl... Read More

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CURIOSITY

Many are a great deal worried by curiousity. I have sometimes wanted to know why the Lord does this and that with me. Blessed be his name, I am resolved not to question him any more in that fashion. Somebody prayed the other day that I might see the reason why the Lord has lately afflicted me. I hop... Read More

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CURSE, THE

“As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse,” even as the Shorter Catechism puts it, “They have lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so are made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.” Dare you sleep to-nigh... Read More

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DARKNESS

The world hates virtue; it cannot bear perfection; it might endure benevolence, but absolute purity and righteousness it cannot, away with. Its native instincts are wrong; it is not towards the light that men are going, their backs are to the sun, they are journeying into the thick darkness. 2338.59... Read More

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DEATH and DYING

We are all like trees marked for the axe, and the fall of one should remind us that for every one, whether great as the cedar, or humble as the fir, the appointed hour is stealing on apace. ME541 May we regard death as the most weighty of all events, and be sobered by its approach. ME541 We talk of ... Read More

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DEATH and DYING - DAILY

To “die daily” is the business of Christians. It is greatly wise to talk with our last hours, to make ourselves familiar with the grave. Our venerable forefathers had a queer habit of placing on the dressing-table a death’s head, as a memento mori— either a real skull, or else an ornament fashioned ... Read More

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DEATH and DYING -DEFINITION OF

To die as to the first death is the separation of the body from the soul; it is the resolution of our nature into its component elements; and to die the second death is to separate the man, soul and body, from his God, who is the life and joy of our manhood. WCo133 Dying does not mean ceasing to exi... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -FEAR OF

Burckhardt states, that although the Arabs are strict predestinarians, yet when the plague visited Medina, many of the townsmen fled to the desert, alleging as an excuse that although the distemper was a messenger from heaven sent to call them to a better world, yet being conscious of their own unwo... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -OF BELIEVERS

My brother said to me, the other day, what Charles Wesley said to John Wesley, “Brother, our people die well!” I answered, “Assuredly they do!” I have never been to the sick-bed of any one of our people without feeling strengthened in faith. AM361 The late venerable and godly Dr. Archibald Alexander... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -OF UNBELIEVERS

Some persons on their dying beds just wake up in time to see their danger, but not to escape from it: they are carried right over the cataract of judgment and wrath. 996.348 Now, how do you find Christians of that kind when you have attended their dying beds, if you have had the privilege of doing s... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -PREPARATION FOR

He who does not prepare for death is more than an ordinary fool, he is a madman. ME541 You may do anything which you would not be ashamed to be doing when Christ shall come. You may do anything which you would not blush to be found doing if the hand of death should smite you; but if you would dread ... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -SPIRITUAL

John once wished for Gaius, that his body might prosper and be in health even as his soul prospered. Now, suppose our bodies were to prosper just as our souls do! Why, there would sit in one place a living woman, and side by side with her a dead husband; further on, a living child, and then a dead g... Read More

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DEATH AND DYING -SUDDEN

You and I hear of sudden deaths, and yet we imagine we shall not die suddenly. 260.286 We have heard of one who, when the morning paper brought him news that a friend in business had died, was drawing on his boots to go to his counting-house, and observed with a laugh that as far as he was concerned... Read More

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DEATH BED CONVERSION

As for peace in the hour of death, he who is not pardoned living is not likely to be pardoned dying. Nine out of ten, perhaps nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand of professed death-bed salvations are a delusion. We have good facts to prove that. A certain physician collected notes of ... Read More

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DEBT

Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. PT78 If you want to sleep soundly, buy a bed of a man who is in debt; surely it must be a very soft one, or he never could have rested so easy on it. PT82 Scripture says, “Owe no man anything,” which does not mean pay your debts, but never have any to pay. PT83... Read More

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DECISION

Many men turn aside from religion, where their interest would be compromised. If I see two men walking together, I cannot tell who is the master of the dog that is behind, but I shall discover directly; one of them will turn to the right and the other to the left; now I shall know who is the master ... Read More

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DEFENSIVENESS

Brethren, we are generally too fast with our tongues when anybody accuses us. I am afraid we are not always so quick to defend our Master, as we are to defend ourselves. 3327.535... Read More

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DEICIDE

So far as man could pierce his God, and slay his God, he went about to commit the hideous crime; for man slew the Lord Christ, and pierced him with a spear, and therein showed what he would do with the Eternal himself, if he could come at him. Man is, at heart, a deicide. He would be glad if there w... Read More

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DELEGATION

Very little is done right when it is left to other people. PP124 Well, dear friend, it goes without saying that if you managed things, they would be managed perfectly; but, you see, you cannot do everything, and therefore you must trust somebody. 2264.327... Read More

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