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No man knows the brightness of the gospel ’till he understands the blackness of those clouds which surround the law of the Lord.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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The Law searches to the dividing asunder of joints and marrow, and it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Its excessive light strikes us like Saul of Tarsus, to the earth, and makes us cry for mercy.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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So pure, so just, so uncompromising is the Law of God, that when it is really understood, it makes us quail, and brings us to our knees.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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How foolish we are! How we repeat the folly of our first parent every day when we seek to hide sin from conscience, and then think it is hidden from God.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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Truth could not be truth in this world if it were not a warring thing, and we should at once suspect that it were not true if error were friends with it. The spotless purity of truth must always be at war with the blackness of heresy and lies.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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Doth that man love his Lord who would be willing to see Jesus wearing a crown of thorns, while for himself he craves a chaplet of laurel? Shall Jesus ascend to His throne by the cross, and do we expect to be carried there on the shoulders of applauding crowds? Be not so vain in your imagination. Count you the cost, and if you are not willing to bear Christ’s cross, go away to your farm and to your merchandise, and make the most of them; only let me whisper this in your ear, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is the better.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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The knowledge of God is the great hope of sinners. Oh, if you knew Him better, you would fly to Him! If you understood how gracious He is, you would seek Him. If you could have any idea of His holiness, you would loathe your self-righteousness. If you knew anything of His power, you would not venture to contend with Him. If you knew anything of His grace, you would not hesitate to yield yourself to Him.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes us alive again.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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The devil has seldom done a cleverer thing than hinting to the church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them . . . providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the church . . . the need is for Biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that it sets men aflame.

- Charles H. Spurgeon

1834 - 1892

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If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. Let them go with our arms around their knees. Let no one go there unwarned or unprayed for.

- Charles Spurgeon

1834 - 1892