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Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
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Kelvedon
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.
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You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact .
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Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
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Prayer can never be in excess.
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A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
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A child's cry touches a father's heart.
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Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.
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The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.
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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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Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
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I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
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We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
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Stand still - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, Go forward.
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Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
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None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.
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Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
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When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.
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Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.
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