Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.


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There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast...
CHARLES SPURGEON
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris...
CHARLES SPURGEON
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES SPURGEON
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne...
CHARLES SPURGEON
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that...
CHARLES SPURGEON
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
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