Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
- Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
- Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves. – Israelmore Ayivor
- If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men. – 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
- Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others. – Debasish Mridha
- Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
- if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse. – 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
- 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
- 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
- I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels. – 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
- It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We entertain God’s Truth not as a guest but as master of the house. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon