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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. "

Charles Spurgeon

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" Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition. "

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" 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! "

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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. "

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" The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. "

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" The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus. "

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" Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. "

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" A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. "

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" 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. "

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

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" However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise. "

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" We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. "

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" Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. "

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" We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also. "

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" In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then. "

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" Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee. "

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" If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked. "

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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. "

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" Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God. "

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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. "

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" I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. "

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" To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. "

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" No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. "

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" However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love. "

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" A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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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