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" I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration. "

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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. "

Charles Spurgeon

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God

Men

" 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! "

" I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. "

" Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus. "

Charles Spurgeon

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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 casts a sinner into hell. "

" Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. "

Charles Spurgeon

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" Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace. "

" My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another. "

" 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. "

" 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. "

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

" We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. "

" May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting! "

" I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. "

" 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. "

" I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach. "

" You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. "

" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

" All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. "

Charles Spurgeon

Goodness

Sin

" Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. "

Charles Spurgeon

Worst

" Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise. "

" Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. "

" Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? "

" May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary. "

Charles Spurgeon

Him

Hearts

" Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible. "

" Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day. "

" Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions. "

" As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly! "

" True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. "

" There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been! "