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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
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Kelvedon
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.
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Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.
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If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.
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Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.
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Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
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Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
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The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
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The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
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There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power.
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Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'
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The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
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To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.
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The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.
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The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.
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You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.
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Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.
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Hang that question up in your houses, What would Jesus do? and then think of another, How would Jesus do it? for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.
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