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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, born on June 19, 1834, was a prominent Christian preacher from the United Kingdom. Known as the 'Preacher of London,' he was renowned for his passionate sermons and profound influence. Spurgeon's preaching drew thousands of listeners, and his writings had a widespread impact on the Christian world.

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“There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant.”

Knows Wells I Can Christian Used Poor Trouble Promise Believer Trials Assured Floats Covenant Despised

Book:Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series

“We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.”

Knows Perfect Glory Essence Absolutes Infinite Unlimited Dominion Transcendent

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.”

Knows Lying Promise Word Of God Rejoice Threatening

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!”

People Knows Heart Has Beens Done Christian Turns Church Poor Lord Late Built Army Productions Believer Hospitals Alas Lambs Godliness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.”

Ifs Knows Heart May Children Long Made Whole Girl Jesus Nations Christ Boys Land Holy Glory Blessed Dear Enlightened Yield Serving God Brethren Boy And Girl Heathen Valuation Holy Days

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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.”

Knows Firsts Christ Agree Salvation Saviour Save Me

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.”

Knows Mind May Spirit Imagination Keys Return Seven Wicked

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.”

Knows Needs Enough Heaven Christ

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497

“I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Heart May Persons Self Character Can Do Judging Depends Pure Affection Seeking Ambitious Benevolence

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.”

Knows Light Economy Masters Waste Israel Servant Wasting Time Quench

Book:Lectures to My Students

Source: Lectures to My Students

“I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.”

Knows Men Doe Stills Done Seems Spirit Evil Names Sin Common Brother Charity Excuse Height Good Man Multitudes Attainment Inconsistent Inconsistency Fervent Worldliness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.”

Knows Wells I Can Use Lord Preacher Using Me

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be assailed... Glory be to God, we know the end of the war. The great dragon shall be cast out and for ever destroyed, while Jesus and they who are with him shall receive the crown. Let us sharpen our swords to-night, and pray the Holy Spirit to nerve our arms for the conflict. Never battle so important, never crown so glorious. Every man to his post, ye warriors of the cross, and may the Lord tread Satan under your feet shortly!”

“Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.”

“God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.”

Knows Book Together Views Gone Bones Flesh Dust Wander Atoms Handful God Knows Particles

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.”

Knows Children Long Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Acceptable Good Work God Knows Child Of God

Book:The Sermon on the Mount

Source: The Sermon on the Mount

“People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.”

People Knows Made Sin Wounds

Book:The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

“We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.”

Knows Christian Evil Jesus Lord Cures Communion

Book:Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon

Source: Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon

“The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.”

Knows Men Worst Clever Clever Man

Book:John Ploughman's Pictures

Source: John Ploughman's Pictures

“If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.”

Ifs Knows Needs Said Prayer

Book:Commentary on Colossians

Source: Commentary on Colossians

“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.”

Knows Men Way Sin Hell Sweet Drink Fairs Ruins Cups Poison Fascinated Slaughter Liver Harlots Bewitched

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

Knows Has Beens Might Spirit Speak Talking Know How Grace Hundred Seasons Christian Inspirational Hard Times Cheer Weary

Book:Select Works

Source: Select Works

“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.”

Knows Wish Listening Newspapers

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.”

Knows May Soul Christian Deeds Defense Gods Will Perceive Word Of God Towers Foe Castles

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756

“Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!”

Knows Night Forever Failing Summer Spring Winter Gods Will Dawn Showers Encouraging Having Hope Drought

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”

Ifs Knows Purpose Faith Wish Perceive Trust In God Godly Knowing God Trust And Faith

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.”

Knows Men Believe Doe Facts Christ Mistake Saved Saving Lifts Baptism Ordinances Baptized Baptized In

Book:Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London

“You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Christian Young Christ Growing Self Esteem Holy Esteem Mature Boast Mourn Babe Infirmity

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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."”

Ifs Knows Men Jesus Christ Grace Jesus Christ Salvation Free Will Luther

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.”

Knows Spiritual Prayer Intensity Our Prayers Temperature Thermometers

Book:Sermons on the Psalms

Source: Sermons on the Psalms

“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.”

Knows Giving Humans Turns Can Do Prayer Divine Weakness Mortals Folly Heavenly Human Folly

Book:Morning by Morning

Source: Morning by Morning

“...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.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Earth Heaven Can Do Prayer Know How Regret Praying Overcoming Preaching Serving God Godly Heaven And Earth Overrated God Prayer

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.”

“My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!”

Source: Morning by Morning

“There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.”

Knows Earth Suffering Greater Mercy Inevitable Sickness Good Health

Book:The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

“Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.”

Knows Way Should Children Gone Should Have Our Children Train Your Children Fatherhood

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.”

Ifs Knows Mean Hands Christian Faith Sides Growth Water Wonder Lord Gone Grace Kings Conflict Hundred Eight Storm Saving Lions Pits Deck Spears King David

Book:Gleanings Among The Sheaves

Source: Gleanings Among The Sheaves

“We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.”

Knows Littles Would Be Christian Worry Christian Inspirational Height Foolishness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”

Knows Christian Subjects Ambition Christian Inspirational Faithful My Ambition

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."”

Ifs Knows Christian Lost Language Losing Words Christian Inspirational Preacher English Language Baptists Losing Yourself Losing Someone Feeling Lost

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.”

Knows Shapes Conscience England Edges Doctrine Rough Scotland Thunder Augustine Rough Edges

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Christian Life Is Steps Know How Cutting Progress Labor Cease Christian Life Ice Hills Climbing Slides Every Step Incessant Backsliding

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you. Why should he? Has he not come on purpose that he may testify of Christ? Did not Jesus say, ‘He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you’? Yes, the subject was Christ, and nothing but Christ, and such is the teaching which the Spirit of God will own. Be it ours never to wander from this central point: may we determine to know nothing among men but Christ and his cross.”

“I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.”

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.”

Knows Feels Done Christ

Book:Morning by Morning

Source: Morning by Morning

“You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.”

Ifs Knows May Children Made Names Stars Forget Lord Cases Danger Creatures Approach Saint

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.”

Knows Christ Emptiness Fullness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.”

People Thinking Knows World Christian Miracle Believer Solemn

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106

“Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.”

Ifs Knows May Jesus

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

About the Author

Born: June 19, 1834
Died: January 31, 1892
Known for: Preacher
Quotes: 1480

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