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Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!


Charles Spurgeon

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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviou...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of e...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not "apt to teach." Yo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass
CHARLES H. SPURGEON God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON He that deserves nothing should be content with anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
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