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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore)
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
We must not talk to our congregations as if we were half asleep. Our preaching must not be articulate snoring. There must be power, life, energy, vigour. We must throw our whole selves into it, and show that the zeal of God's house has eaten us up.Lectures to my Students
Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false. 63 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34
We encourage our members to leave us to found other Churches; nay, we seek to persuade them to do it. We ask them to scatter through—out the land to become the goodly seed, which God shall bless. I believe that so long as we do this we shall prosper.
I saw the other day in an Italian grotto a little fern, which grew where its leaves continually glistened and danced in the spray of a fountain. It was always green, and neither summer's drought nor winter's cold affected it. So let us for ever abide under the sweet influence of Jesus' love.
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I say again, that detailed obedience is the surest evidence that the Lord has forgiven your sin.
As to mental maladies, is any man altogether sane? Are we not all a little off the balance?Lectures to my Students
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Hell has many gates, though heaven has just one.
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see. All of Grace (48)
Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves. All of Grace (116)
Repentance is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have committed it, a resolution to forsake it. It is, in fact, a change of mind of a very deep and practical character, which makes the man love what once he hated, and hate what once he loved.
Young men, to you I would honestly say that I would be ashamed to speak of a religion that would make you soft, cowardly, effeminate, spiritless, so that you would be mere simpletons in business, having no souls of your own, the prey of every designing knave.
A man's nose is a prominent feature in his face, but it is possible to make it so large that eyes and mouth and everything else are thrown into insignificance, and the drawing is a caricature and not a portrait: so certain important doctrines of the gospel can be so proclaimed in excess as to throw the rest of truth into the shade, and the preaching is no longer the gospel in its natural beauty, but a caricature of the truth, of which caricature, however, let me say, some people seem to be mightily fond. The Spirit of God will teach you the use of the sacrificial knife to divide the offerings; and He will show you how to use the balances of the sanctuary so as to weigh out and mix the precious spices in their proper quantities.Lectures to my Students
In order to get attention, the first golden rule is, always say something worth hearing.Lectures to my Students
If a man be called to preach, he will be endowed with a degree of speaking ability, which he will cultivate and increase.Lectures to my Students
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 around their knees, imploring them to stay. 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. Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ... - Page 333
A train is said to have been stopped on one of the United States' railways by flies in the grease-boxes of the carriage wheels. The analogy is perfect; a man in all other respects fitted to be useful, may by some small defect be exceedingly hindered, or even rendered utterly useless.Lectures to My Students (Kindle Locations 60-62). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.
A Christian ought to be a comforter, with kind words on his lips and sympathy in his heart.
There is scarcely anything impossible to a man who can keep a congregation together for years, and be the means of edifying them for hundreds of consecutive Sabbaths; he must be possessed of some abilities, and be by no means a fool or ne'er-do-well. Jesus Christ deserves the best men to preach His cross, and not the empty-headed and the shiftless.Lectures to my Students
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
It is a marvel to me how men continue at ease in preaching year after year without conversions. Have they no bowels of compassion for others? no sense of responsibility upon themselves? Dare they, by a vain misrepresentation of divine sovereignty, cast the blame on their Master? Or is it their belief that Paul plants and Apollos waters, and that God gives no increase?Lectures to My Students (p. 32). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
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