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"40 Charles Spurgeon Quotes & Sayings

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Born: June 19, 1834 Died: January 31, 1892 | Clergyman |

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Empty Sorrow Strenght Tomorrow
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Estimate Humility Make Right
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

High Judgments None Opinion
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Around Half Lie Shoes
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Best Carve Good Hearts
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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.

Wise Deal Fool Great
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You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Always Expect Get Might
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Enjoy Happiness Makes Much
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Ark Perseverance Reached Snail
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Beware Carry Enemies Man
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Knows Listening Wish Newspapers
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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Crack Hard Kernel Must
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Value Hypocrite Person Least
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Eggs Golden Goose Lay
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Appearance Miserable Person Poor
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Affliction Best Lord Gets
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Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Dig Soil Teach Trials
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Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Accepting Alone Christ Eternal
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Christian Die Enough Epitome
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Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Carried Free Soul Heaven
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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Aid Create Holy Repent
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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Apart Believe Certain Determination
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Enemy Greatest Human Salvation
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Desperation Heaven Heretic Purgatory
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You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Sinner Saint Hereafter Live
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Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Act Behold Being Eternity
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Conversion Deserve Done Gratitude
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I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Body Corruption Daily Drop
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Carnal Earth Enough Experience
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Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Achievements Cloud Disappear Fast
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Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

Blessing Bright Future God
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I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Anthem Ascend Bass Deep
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I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Addressing Minister Preach Sermon
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Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Forget Forgiven Hour Immortality
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If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Arouse Love Christ Died
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There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
Beyond Description God Gospel
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The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Dedicated First Fresh Golden
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Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Bestowed Christ Father Love
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Charles Spurgeon Quotes & Sayings