I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. – 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
- You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister. – Katherine J Walden
- I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief – Euripides
- If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Christ’s vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. – Oprah Winfrey
- 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
- I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. – 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
- Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – 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
- Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing. – 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 world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon