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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

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.
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Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.
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The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.
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He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
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When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.
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That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
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As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
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A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
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Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.
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If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
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You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?
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If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?
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It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company they would not have laid the keel yet and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.
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No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.
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It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
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The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
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It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.
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