The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.
Charles Spurgeon
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to... FULTON J. 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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. CHARLES H. SPURGEON