Quotes by Preachers - Page 3

We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
Thomas Brooks
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My reason for believing in Christ is not that I feel my need of Him, but that I have a need of him… When I come to Jesus, I know I cannot come unless I am awakened, but nevertheless, I do not come as an awakened sinner. I do not stand at the foot of his cross to be washed because I have repented. I bring nothing when I come but sin. A sense of need is a good feeling, but when I stand at the foot of the cross, I do not believe in Christ because I have good feelings, but I believe in him whether I have good feelings or not. The basis on which a sinner comes to Christ is that he is black, not that he knows he is black; that he is dead, not that he knows he is dead; that he is lost, not that he knows he is lost… Generally, the people who repent the most think they are impenitent. People feel their need most when they think they do not feel at all, for we are no judges of our feelings. Hence the gospel invitation is not put upon the ground of anything of which we can be a judge. It is put on the basis of our being sinners, and nothing but sinners.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Blessed One, once crucified for you, who ever liveth to make intercession for you? Cling to the cross, then, Put both arms around it! Hold to the Crucified, and never let Him go. Come afresh to the cross at this moment, and rest there now and for ever! Then, with the power of God resting upon you, go forth and preach the cross! Tell out the story of the bleeding Lamb. Repeat the wondrous tale, and nothing else. Never mind how you do it, only proclaim that Jesus died for sinner.The cross held up by a babe’s hands is just as powerful as if a giant held it up. The power lies in the word itself, or rather in the Holy Spirit who works by it and with it. O glorious Christ, when I have had a vision of Thy cross, I have seen it at first like a common gibbet, and Thou wast hanging on it like a felon; but, as I have looked, I have seen it begin to rise, and tower aloft till it has reached the highest heaven, and by its mighty power has lifted up myriads to the throne of God. I have seen its arms extend and expand until they have embraced all the earth. I have seen the foot of it go down deep as our helpless miseries are; and what a vision I have had of Thy magnificence, O Thou crucified One! Brethren, believe in the power of the cross for the conversion of those around you. Do not say of any man that he cannot be saved. The blood of Jesus is omnipotent. Do not say of any district that it is too sunken, or of any class of men that they are too far gone: the word of the cross reclaims the lost. Believe it to be the power of God, and you shall find it so.Believe in Christ crucified, and preach boldly in His name, and you shall see great and gladsome things. Do not doubt the ultimate triumph of Christianity. Do not let a mistrust flit across your soul. The cross must conquer; it must blossom with a crown, a crown commensurate with the person of the Crucified, and the bitterness of His agony. His reward shall parallel His sorrows. Trust in God, and lift you banner high, and now with psalms and songs advance to battle, for the Lord of hosts is with us, the Son of the Highest leads our van. Onward, with blast of silver trumpet and shout of those that seize the spoil. Let no man’s heart fail him! Christ hath died! Atonement is complete! God is satisfied! Peace is proclaimed! Heaven glitters with proofs of mercy already bestowed upon ten thousand times ten thousand! Hell is trembling, heaven adoring, earth waiting. Advance, ye saints, to certain victory! You shall overcome through the blood of the Lamb.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.
Russell D. Moore
The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, "I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away;" but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Every human being is, by definition, a theologian.
Russell D. Moore
My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I would sooner a hundred times over appear to be inconsistent with myself than be inconsistent with the word of God. I never thought it to be any very great crime to seem to be inconsistent with myself; for who am I that I should everlastingly be consistent? But I do think it a great crime to be so inconsistent with the word of God that I should want to lop away a bough or even a twig from so much as a single tree of the forest of Scripture. God forbid that I should cut or shape, even in the least degree, any divine expression.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn't remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not to starve before stones. God will protect his anointed one with the angels of heaven. God will give his Messiah all the kingdoms of the earth. All this is true. What is satanic about all of this, though, is that Satan wanted our Lord to grasp these things apart from the cross and the empty tomb.
Russell D. Moore
But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".
John Bunyan
It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.
Thomas Brooks