Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original Charles Spurgeon More Quotes by Charles Spurgeon More Quotes From Charles Spurgeon The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart. Charles Spurgeon rocksheartorder It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Charles Spurgeon judgingpastyears Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us. Charles Spurgeon fuelteachingsound God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart. Charles Spurgeon wisehearthands Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. Charles Spurgeon conformityfaithcharacter You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. Charles Spurgeon christianheartchildren To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth. Charles Spurgeon soulheavenjesus When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord. Charles Spurgeon helperslordheart ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal. Charles Spurgeon godlyregretprayer Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers. Charles Spurgeon philosophicaleyeprayer Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below Charles Spurgeon fellowship-with-godchristianheaven I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon halfsoulhands Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. Charles Spurgeon sorrowsufferingjoy Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still. Charles Spurgeon amazing-lovegonesides No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline Charles Spurgeon disciplinepridematter Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin. Charles Spurgeon menbelievefall The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching. Charles Spurgeon servant-of-godhomereligion Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. Charles Spurgeon kingswisemen If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. Charles Spurgeon churchprayerfirsts True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven. Charles Spurgeon prayerspiritualheart
