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CHARLES SPURGEON The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kin... CHARLES SPURGEON Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. CHARLES SPURGEON I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a genera... CHARLES SPURGEON What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble ... CHARLES SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. CHARLES SPURGEON It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. C.H. SPURGEON A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not ye... CHARLES SPURGEON I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to... CHARLES SPURGEON It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thous... CHARLES SPURGEON This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of ... CHARLES SPURGEON We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume ... CHARLES SPURGEON Feast of Michael & All Angels The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of t... CHARLES SPURGEON There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. CHARLES SPURGEON There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, bu... CHARLES SPURGEON Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him,... CHARLES SPURGEON The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the f... CHARLES SPURGEON Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can l... CHARLES SPURGEON Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. All... CHARLES SPURGEON Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever ... CHARLES SPURGEON The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. CHARLES SPURGEON When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering wh... CHARLES SPURGEON Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me fro... CHARLES SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. CHARLES SPURGEON Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. ... CHARLES SPURGEON Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we ... CHARLES SPURGEON Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and ... CHARLES SPURGEON Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with jo... CHARLES SPURGEON My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their ... CHARLES SPURGEON As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware... CHARLES SPURGEON I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obe... CHARLES SPURGEON Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him ... CHARLES SPURGEON O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all. CHARLES SPURGEON Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, wit... CHARLES SPURGEON Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we ... CHARLES SPURGEON If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go... CHARLES SPURGEON You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will neve... CHARLES SPURGEON Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; ther... CHARLES SPURGEON We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which ... CHARLES SPURGEON One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and ham... CHARLES SPURGEON We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thought... CHARLES SPURGEON The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to C... CHARLES SPURGEON If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked. CHARLES SPURGEON I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, fo... CHARLES SPURGEON In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then. CHARLES SPURGEON The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h... CHARLES SPURGEON