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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.

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

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  1. The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  2. The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  3. Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  4. 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
  5. We entertain God’s Truth not as a guest but as master of the house. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  6. if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  7. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  8. The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  9. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  10. God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  11. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  12. God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  13. One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  14. The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  15. How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. – Virginia Woolf
  16. Man’s devilish thoughts is the devil and the devil is man. – AuliqIce
  17. Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  18. Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  19. Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  20. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  21. The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  22. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  23. Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  24. If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  25. 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
  26. Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  27. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  28. Sharpen your sword daily , and let it serve your true master: YOU. You and the Master are one – Vernon Kitabu Turner
  29. A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. No matter how strong you are, you don’t just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  33. Smartass Student : ‘a man must have his own master.’Master of Stupidity: ‘yea, everyone’s somebody’s bitch. – Toba Beta
  34. Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. – Victor J Stenger
  35. Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  36. The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  37. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  38. You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  39. The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  40. God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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