There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- 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
- Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. – 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
- If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-”if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- You know, I don’t think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family. – CJ Milbrandt
- There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – 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
- 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
- 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
- God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We entertain God’s Truth not as a guest but as master of the house. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. – 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