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the highest ends. So be it this day.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Haddon_Spurgeon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Charles_Haddon_Spurgeon.jpg" decoding="async" width="181" height="258" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="181" data-file-height="258" /></a><figcaption>Mind your till, and till your mind.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spurgeon_caricature.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Spurgeon_caricature.jpg/220px-Spurgeon_caricature.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="355" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Spurgeon_caricature.jpg/330px-Spurgeon_caricature.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Spurgeon_caricature.jpg/440px-Spurgeon_caricature.jpg 2x" data-file-width="505" data-file-height="814" /></a><figcaption>We must, like goldsmiths, carefully sweep our shops, and gather up the filings of the gold which God has given us in the shape of time.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Spurgeon">Charles Haddon Spurgeon</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a>, <a href="/wiki/1834" class="mw-disambig" title="1834">1834</a> – <a href="/wiki/January_31" title="January 31">January 31</a>, <a href="/wiki/1892" class="mw-disambig" title="1892">1892</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/Category:Religious_leaders" title="Category:Religious leaders">British Baptist minister</a> and writer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The practice of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is the most profitable reading of it. <ul><li><i>Morning and Evening</i> (1866), entry for June 20</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple. <ul><li><i>Gleanings Among the Sheaves</i> (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), "Holiness", p. 73</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It lies not in man's right nor in man's power truly to justify the guilty. This is a miracle reserved for the Lord alone. God, the infinitely just Sovereign, knows that there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not, and therefore, in the infinite sovereignty of His divine nature and in the splendor of His ineffable love, He undertakes the task, not so much of justifying the just as of justifying the ungodly. God has devised ways and means of making the ungodly man to stand justly accepted before Him: He has set up a system by which with perfect justice He can treat the guilty as if he had been all his life free from offence, yea, can treat him as if he were wholly free from sin. He justifieth the ungodly. <ul><li><i>All of Grace</i> (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1886) "God Justifieth the Ungodly", p. 9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. <ul><li><i>Faith's Checkbook</i> (1888), entry for June 22.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those years in mapping out a plan of living, and putting himself under rule; for he would do more with the ten well-arranged years than with the whole thirty if he spent them at random. There is much truth in that saying. A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has not learned to take aim. <ul><li><i>A Good Start: A Book for Young Men and Women</i> (1898)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin" class="extiw" title="w:John Calvin">John Calvin</a>, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: ‘He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.’<br /> This sentence truly describes the character of that glorious man of God. Among all those who have been born of women, there has not risen a greater than John Calvin; no age, before him ever produced his equal, and no age afterwards has seen his rival. In theology, he stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him, at a great distance — as comets go streaming through space — with nothing like his glory or his permanence. <ul><li><i>The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, Compiled from His Diaries, Letters, and Records by His Wife and His Private Secretary</i> (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1898), Vol. 2 (1854-1860), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=t3RAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA371&dq=%22I+saw+this+medal,+bearing+the+venerated+likeness+of+John+Calvin,+I+kissed+it%22&hl=en&ei=JP4LTd-SMcX_lgf0--yzDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20saw%20this%20medal%2C%20bearing%20the%20venerated%20likeness%20of%20John%20Calvin%2C%20I%20kissed%20it%22&f=false">pp. 371-372</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sermons_(1854–1891)"><span id="Sermons_.281854.E2.80.931891.29"></span><i>Sermons</i> (1854–1891)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sermons (1854–1891)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It is a great deal easier to set a story afloat than to stop it. If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." Nevertheless, it does not injure us; for if light as feather it travels as fast, its effect is just about as tremendous as the effect of down, when it is blown against the walls of a castle; it produces no damage whatever, on account of its lightness and littleness. Fear not, Christian. Let slander fly, let envy send forth its forked tongue, let it hiss at you, your bow shall abide in strength. Oh! shielded warrior, remain quiet, fear no ill; but, like the eagle in its lofty eyrie, look thou down upon the fowlers in the plain, turn thy bold eye upon them and say, "Shoot ye may, but your shots will not reach half-way to the pinnacle where I stand. Waste your powder upon me if ye will; I am beyond your reach." Then clap your wings, mount to heaven, and there laugh them to scorn, for ye have made your refuge God, and shall find a most secure abode. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/joseph-attacked-by-the-archers-2/#flipbook/">"Joseph Attacked by the Archers"</a> (April 1, 1855), Sermon 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, <b>if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-wailing-of-risca">"The Wailing of Risca"</a> (December 9, 1860), Sermon 349</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If religion be false, it is the basest imposition under heaven; but if the religion of Christ be true, it is the most solemn truth that ever was known! It is not a thing that a man dares to trifle with if it be true, for it is at his soul's peril to make a jest of it. If it be not true it is detestable, but if it be true it deserves all a man's faculties to consider it, and all his powers to obey it. It is not a trifle. Briefly consider why it is not. It deals with your soul. If it dealt with your body it were no trifle, for it is well to have the limbs of the body sound, but it has to do with your soul. As much as a man is better than the garments that he wears, so much is the soul better than the body. It is your immortal soul it deals with. Your soul has to live for ever, and the religion of Christ deals with its destiny. Can you laugh at such words as heaven and hell, at glory and at damnation? If you can, if you think these trifles, then is the faith of Christ to be trifled with. Consider also with whom it connects you—with God; before whom angels bow themselves and veil their faces. Is HE to be trifled with? Trifle with your monarch if you will, but not with the King of kings, the Lord of lords. Recollect that those who have ever known anything of it tell you it is no child's play. The saints will tell you it is no trifle to be converted. They will never forget the pangs of conviction, nor the joys of faith. They tell you it is no trifle to have religion, for it carries them through all their conflicts, bears them up under all distresses, cheers them under every gloom, and sustains them in all labour. They find it no mockery. The Christian life to them is something so solemn, that when they think of it they fall down before God, and say, "Hold thou me up and I shall be safe." And sinners, too, when they are in their senses, find it no trifle. When they come to die they find it no little thing to die without Christ. When conscience gets the grip of them, and shakes them, they find it no small thing to be without a hope of pardon—with guilt upon the conscience, and no means of getting rid of it. And, sirs, true ministers of God feel it to be no trifle. I do myself feel it to be such an awful thing to preach God's gospel, that if it were not "Woe unto me if I do not preach the gospel," I would resign my charge this moment. I would not for the proudest consideration under heaven know the agony of mind I felt but this one morning before I ventured upon this platform! Nothing but the hope of winning souls from death and hell, and a stern conviction that we have to deal with the grandest of all realities, would bring me here. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0457.HTM">Religion—a Reality"</a> (June 22, 1862), Sermon 457</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objections but the ground of quarrel. It is rather covert enmity which we have most cause to fear and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons10.xvi.html">"Baptismal Regeneration"</a> (June 5, 1864), Sermon 573</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wisdom is, I suppose, 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. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-fourfold-treasure/#flipbook/">"The Fourfold Treasure"</a> (April 27, 1871), Sermon 991</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know it is the notion of the bigot, that all the truly godly people belong to the denomination which he adorns. <b><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</a> is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me.</b> All the good people go to little Bethel, and nowhere else: they all worship at Zoar, and they sing out of such-and-such a selection, and as for those who cannot say Shibholeth, and lay a pretty good stress on the “h,” but who pronounce it “Sibboleth;“let the fords of the Jordan be taken, and let them be put to death. True, it is not fashionable to roast them alive, but we will condemn their souls to everlasting perdition, which is the next best thing, and may not appear to be quite so uncharitable. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons17/sermons17.xxxviii.html">"Lessons from Nature</a> (August 13th, 1871) Sermon 1005</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Women are best when they are quiet. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/first-healing-and-then-service/#flipbook/">"First Healing, and Then Service"</a> (April 19, 1885), Sermon 1836</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All that befalls us on our road to heaven is meant to befit us for our journey's end. Our way through the wilderness is meant to try us, and to prove us, that our evils may be discovered, repented of, and overcome, and that thus we may be without fault before the throne at the last. We are being educated for the skies, meetened for the assembly of the perfect. It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we are struggling up towards it; and we know that when Jesus shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/our-lords-prayer-for-his-peoples-sanctification/#flipbook/">"Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification"</a> (March 7, 1886), Sermon 1890</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Word of God can take care of itself, and will do so if we preach it, and cease defending it. See you that lion. They have caged him for his preservation; shut him up behind iron bars to secure him from his foes! See how a band of armed men have gathered together to protect the lion. What a clatter they make with their swords and spears! These mighty men are intent upon defending a lion. O fools, and slow of heart! Open that door! Let the lord of the forest come forth free. Who will dare to encounter him? What does he want with your guardian care? Let the pure gospel go forth in all its lion-like majesty, and it will soon clear its own way and ease itself of its adversaries. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols34-36/chs2004.pdf">"The Lover of God's Law Filled with Peace"</a> (January 22, 1888), Sermon 2004</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Men are microcosms, or little worlds; each man has his distinct sphere, wherein he dwells apart. We are so many worlds, and no one world of man exactly overlaps another. You cannot completely know your fellowman.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/man-unknown-to-man/#flipbook/">"Man Unknown to Man"</a> (April 14, 1889), Sermon 2079</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309">"One Lost Sheep"</a> (April 28, 1889), Sermon 2083</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is powder enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-mediator-the-interpreter/#flipbook/">"The Mediator — The Interpreter"</a> (July 28, 1889), Sermon 2097</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons42/sermons42.xlv.html">"The Danger of Carnal Security"</a> (November 8, 1896), Sermon 2490</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Sword_and_the_Trowel_(1865–_)"><span id="The_Sword_and_the_Trowel_.281865.E2.80.93_.29"></span><i>The Sword and the Trowel</i> (1865– )</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Sword and the Trowel (1865– )"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>The Sword and the Trowel</i> is a magazine started by Spurgeon in 1865. Now called <i>Sword & Trowel</i>, it still enjoys an extensive readership.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>There are a few of us who could scarcely do more than we are doing of our own regular order of work, but there may yet be spare moments for little extra efforts of another sort which in the aggregate, in the run of a year, might produce a great total of real practical result. We must, like goldsmiths, carefully sweep our shops, and gather up the filings of the gold which God has given us in the shape of time. Select a large box and place in it as many cannon-balls as it will hold, it is after a fashion full, but it will hold more if smaller matters be found. Bring a quantity of marbles, very many of these may be packed in the spaces between the larger globes; the box is full now, but only full in a sense, it will contain more yet. There are interstices in abundance into which you may shake a considerable quantity of small shot, and now the chest is filled beyond all question, but yet there is room. You cannot put in another shot or marble, much less another cannon-ball, but you will find that several pounds of sand will slide down between the larger materials, and even then between the granules of sand, if you empty pondering there will be space for all the water, and for the same quantity several times repeated. When there is no space for the great there may be room for the little; where the little cannot enter the less can make its way; and where the less is shut out, the least of all may find ample room and verge enough. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/s_and_t/spur.htm">"A Spur for a Free Horse"</a> (February 1866)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Is it not proven beyond all dispute that there is no limit to the enormities which men will commit when they are once persuaded that they are keepers of other men's consciences? To spread religion by any means, and to crush heresy by all means is the practical inference from the doctrine that one man may control another's religion. Given the duty of a state to foster some one form of faith, and by the sure inductions of our nature slowly but certainly persecution will occur. To prevent for ever the possibility of Papists roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse which it has cast upon the world be blotted out for ever. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/s_and_t/inq.htm">"The Inquisition"</a>, (August 1868)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lectures_to_My_Students_(1870)"><span id="Lectures_to_My_Students_.281870.29"></span><i>Lectures to My Students</i> (1870)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lectures to My Students (1870)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>Lectures to My Students</i>, 2 vol. (New York: American Tract Society, 1870)</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. <ul><li>First Series, Lecture XI: The Minister's Fainting Fits, p. 266</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A vigorous temper is not always an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as little worth. <ul><li>Second Series, Lecture II: The Necessity of Ministerial Progress, p. 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our great object of glorifying God is … to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... <ul><li>Second Series, Lecture X: On Conversion as Our Aim, p. 265</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. <ul><li>Second Series, Lecture X: On Conversion as Our Aim, p. 276</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Salt-Cellars_(1885)"><span id="The_Salt-Cellars_.281885.29"></span><i>The Salt-Cellars</i> (1885)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Salt-Cellars (1885)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>The Salt-Cellars</i>, 2 vol. (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1885)</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>A man who does nothing never has time to do anything. <ul><li>Vol. 1, p. 28</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By perseverance the snail reached the ark. <ul><li>Vol. 1, p. 89</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Don't rely too much on labels,<br />For too often they are fables. <ul><li>Vol. 1, p. 134</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every generation needs regeneration.</b> <ul><li>Vol. 1, p. 152</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It needs more skill than I can tell<br />To play the second fiddle well. <ul><li>Vol. 1, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CmAUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+needs+more+skill+than+I+can+tell+To+play+the+second+fiddle+well%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage">p. 284</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Of two evils choose neither.</b> <ul><li>Vol. 1, p. 297</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are all, at times, unconscious prophets. <ul><li>Vol. 2, p. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mind your till, and till your mind. <ul><li>Vol. 2, p. 20</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Soul-Winner_(1895)"><span id="The_Soul-Winner_.281895.29"></span><i>The Soul-Winner</i> (1895)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Soul-Winner (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><i>The Soul-Winner; or, How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour</i></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.</li></ul> <ul><li>The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.</li></ul> <ul><li>The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them.</li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.</li></ul> <ul><li>Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.</li></ul> <ul><li>It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Spurgeon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</small> </p> <ul><li>There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown. <ul><li>P. 18.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. <ul><li>P. 37.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. <ul><li>P. 73.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration. <ul><li>P. 104.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side. <ul><li>P. 122</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work. <ul><li>P. 128.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves. <ul><li>P. 129.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness. <ul><li>P. 129.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day. <ul><li>P. 137.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow. <ul><li>P. 145.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. <ul><li>P. 148.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her. <ul><li>P. 149.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. <ul><li>P. 169.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God. <ul><li>P. 207.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief. <ul><li>P. 227.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour. <ul><li>P. 227.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair. <ul><li>P. 228.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. <ul><li>P. 239.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them. <ul><li>P. 294.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing. <ul><li>P. 315.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." <ul><li>P. 490.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, ray shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide? "Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: " Never be afraid when you see God's power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife and child." <ul><li>P. 591.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,— in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory. <ul><li>P. 592.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. 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