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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
Hymnwriter
Missionary
Pastor
Preacher
Theologian
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Kelvedon
Essex
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon
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Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
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No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
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The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
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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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Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
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Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.
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God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.
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If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!
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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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By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
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Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.
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We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
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We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.
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Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.
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A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.
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Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.
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