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(Heb.11:4)

Charles H. Spurgeon

Died

31st January 1892

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makeshappiness.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only emptiestoday of its strength.

Of two evils choose neither. 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. Feel for others - in your pocket.Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that

way yourself. Defend the Bible?! I would as much defend a lion. Set it loose, it

will defend itself.

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The dog is not to be praised for not straying if it has been chained

up.

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you. Hang this question up in your homes - "What would Jesus do?"

and then think of another - "How would Jesus do it?" For what

Jesus would do, and how He would do it, may always stand as the

best guide to us. If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is

simply painted pageantry to go to hell in. Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest,

desperately kind, fixed upright. You will never see and know how black you are until you have

seen how bright He is ,and in as much as you never know all His

brightness you will never know all your blackness.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by itsprayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and

from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a

people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And ifHe be not

there, one of the first tokens ofHis absence will be slothfulness in

prayer. I will not believe that you have tasted of the honey of the gospel if

you can eat it all by yourself.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray forme.

Those who are your companions here will be your companionshereafter.

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I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is

the least contented with the world.

It is better not to chew medical pills but to swallow them - Some(biblical) truths need to be swallowed by an effort of faith and not

chewed by perpetual questioning.

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changelesslove.

A Christian is a perpetual miracle. Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God

yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly

with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so

melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;"

and so you stain the honor of God.

You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." Youmake a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you

would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

A child who knowingly sins can savingly believe.The grace that does not make a man better than others is a

worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins,

butFRO

M their sins.W

ithout holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it createshesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of

comfort, the death of peace. "Believe!" is the word which speaks

life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin.

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Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel! I question whether the defenses of the gospel are not sheer

impertinences. The gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ

is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity isin a bad state. But He is alive, and we have only to preach His

gospel in all its naked simplicity, and the power that goes with it

will be the evidence of its divinity.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You

cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only

with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any

progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going

forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of

necessity. You can never stand still.

The hell of hells will be the thought that is forever. The soul seeswritten over its head, "You are damned forever." It hears howlings

that are to be perpetual; it sees flames which are unquenchable; it

knows pains that are unmitigated.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid,because death cannot separate you from God's love.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you andwere helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have

withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).

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