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The Gospel is like a caged lion you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Kelvedon
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
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It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
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The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'
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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.”
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That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
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If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.
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Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.
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I am not the only one that condemns the idle for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, He's dreadfully lazy. That's enough, said the old gentleman all sorts of sins are in that one.
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Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
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God is with us, and His power is around us.
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Never be afraid of the world's censure it's praise is much more to be dreaded.
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You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.
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To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
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He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
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We want to assure you...that if you seek Him you will find Him. Jesus casts out none who come unto Him.
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Birds sing on a bare bough O, believer, canst not thou?
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Fiery trials make golden Christians.
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I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
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My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.
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