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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
Cleric
Hymnwriter
Missionary
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
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Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!
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A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
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Without Christ there is no hope.
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One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
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Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
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Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
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Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
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God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
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If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
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The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world in its very essence it is for ever good news.
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May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.
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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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It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
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Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.
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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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I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.
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Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
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The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.
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As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.
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