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Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible you open its cage and let it roar.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
Autobiographer
Cleric
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Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, If any man ascribes any of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ aright.
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The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
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God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.
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We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
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A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.
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To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
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Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
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There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart
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Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.
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Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
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Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.
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Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.
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No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.
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Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
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Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
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I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.
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Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.
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You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.
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I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace.
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