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One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

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
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.
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Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.
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We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
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No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.
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You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact .
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A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best
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I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
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The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
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I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.
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He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.
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Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
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The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
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He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
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Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.
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A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
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God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
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I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.
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Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.
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Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.
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Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
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