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We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
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There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.
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No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
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Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.
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You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
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No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.
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Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.
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It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.
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God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.
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The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.
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Unbelief is the mother of vice it is the parent of sin and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
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Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.
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The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
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To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.
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Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.
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This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men's testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead.
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
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