Quotes by Preachers - Page 5

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.
Francis of Assisi
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
Thomas Brooks
There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.
Thomas Brooks
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Thomas Brooks
It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We need more worship wars, not fewer. What if the war looked like this in your congregation--the young singles petitioning the church to play more of the old classics for the sake of the elderly people, and the elderly people calling on the leadership to contemporize for the sake of the young new believers? This would signal a counting of others more important than ourselves (Phil 2:3), which comes from the spirit of the humiliated, exalted King, Christ (Phil 2:5-11).
Russell D. Moore
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals." If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.
Paul David Washer
For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be spared the humiliation which springs from the truth! The sweet red apples of self-esteem are deadly poison; who would wish to be destroyed thereby? The bitter fruits of self-knowledge are always healthful, especially if washed down with the waters of repentance, and sweetened with a draught from the wells of salvation; he who loves his own soul will not despise them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Paul David Washer
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as though he had dominion over her (when it was, in fact, the other way around). He treated her as an animal, and she didn't even see it. At the same time, the old dragon appealed to her to transcend the limits of her dignity. If she would reach for the forbidden, she would be "like God, knowing good and evil." He suggested that she was more than a human; she was a goddess.
Russell D. Moore
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty years, I hope you are not so foolish as to think that holy things will easily get the mastery.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He [Jesus] knew no sin. Do you realize this? There has never been one moment in your life— not one moment in your life that wasn’t tainted by sin. And yet, there never was a moment in His life that was tainted by sin! Someone asked me a long time ago, "What is the greatest sin you can commit?" And all of a sudden it just popped in my head so I said it— I said, “Well, I suppose the greatest sin you could commit is to break the greatest commandment that’s ever been given: to love the Lord your God with all you heart, soul, mind, and strength.” Do you realize there’s never been one moment in your life that you have loved God as God ought to be loved? To even suggest that you have is paramount to blasphemy. You have never loved God in a way that God deserves to be loved. But there was never one moment in the life of the man Jesus Christ that He did not love God as God deserves to be loved! You think Jesus is great? He’s greater than you know...
Paul David Washer
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.
John Bunyan
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
Thomas Brooks
We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.
Russell D. Moore
It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.
Russell D. Moore
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
John Bunyan
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath, and it all comes from the same root. So though there be more venom in some gross, crying sins, than in some others; yet there is no sin but hath the same sap, and the same venom, for the kind, that every sin hath, that the worst sin hath.
Jeremiah Burroughs
Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.
F.W. Boreham
No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Maybe such questions bothered me so much because they are being asked about me, all the time, within the echo chamber of my own fallen psyche and by unseen rebel angels all around. Are you really a son of the living God? Does your God really know you? Does this biblical story really belong to you? Are these really your brothers and sisters? Do you really belong here?…
Russell D. Moore
God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is of the utmost importance to us to be kept humble. Consciousness of self-importance is a hateful delusion, but one into which we fall as naturally as weeds grow on a dunghill. We cannot be used of the Lord but that we also dream of personal greatness, we think ourselves almost indispensible to the church, pillars of the cause, and foundations of the temple of God. We are nothings and nobodies, but that we do not think so is very evident, for as soon as we are put on the shelf we begin anxiously to enquire, ‘How will the work go on without me?’ As well might the fly on the coach wheel enquire, ‘How will the mails be carried without me?’ Far better men have been laid in the grave without having brought the Lord’s work to a standstill, and shall we fume and fret because for a little season we must lie upon the bed of languishing? God sometimes weakens our strength in a way at the precise juncture when our presence seems most needed to teach us that we are not necessary to God’s work, and that when we are most useful, He can easily do without us. If this be the practical lesson, the rough schooling may be easily endured for assuredly it is beyond all things desirable that self should be kept low and the Lord alone be magnified.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
Russell D. Moore
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon