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1 " No sin, whatever it is, shall ruin any man if he shall come to Christ for mercy. Though you are black as hell’s midnight through iniquity, yet if you will come to Christ, He is ready to cleanse you. It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks your way to the Savior.”–1895, "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Spurgeon Gems
2 " If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.”–1893, Sermon 2300 "
3 " If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.”–1891, Sermon 2196 "
4 " Prayer should be the natural outflow of the soul: you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for praying has arrived, but because your heart must cry unto your Lord.”–1895, Sermon 2437 "
5 " If you believe [in God], your belief will kill your sinning, or else your sinning will kill your believing! "
6 " God has only to give you what you want to make you feel the emptiness of it!...You will generally notice that when the believer gets near to God, tastes the unseen joys and eats the bread that was made in heaven, all the feasts of earth, all its amusements, and all its glories seem very flat, stale, and unprofitable!”–1891, Sermon 2225 "
7 " Whenever we have to praise God, what do we do? We simply say what He is! ‘You are this and You are that.’ There is no other praise. We cannot fetch anything from anywhere else and bring it to God; the praises of God are simply the facts about Himself! If you want to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, tell the people about Him.”–1891, "
8 " A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.”–1893, Sermon 2310 "
9 " You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: salvation is all of the grace of God; damnation is all of the will of man.”–1895, "
10 " In His own heart, there were frequently great struggles. And those struggles drove Him to prayer. "
11 " When one knows that his times are in God’s hands, he would not change places with a king! No, nor even with an angel!”–1891, Sermon 2205 "
12 " All the good that is ever done in the world is worked by the Holy Spirit and, as the Holy Spirit honors Jesus Christ, so Christ puts great honor upon the Holy Spirit. If you and I try, either as a Church or as individuals, to do without the Holy Spirit, God will soon do without us. "
13 " There is joy in hell when a saint grows idle! There is gladness among devils when we cease to pray, when we become slack in faith and feeble in communion with God.”–1893, Sermon 2303 "
14 " Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one another!”–1893, Sermon 2291 "
15 " There would be nobody to receive mercy if nobody were guilty.”–1894, Sermon 2372 "
16 " It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893, "
17 " The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.”–1892, Sermon 2285 "
18 " Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.”–1895, Sermon 2437 "
19 " Never let us fall into the false notion that if we magnify Christ, we are depreciating the Father. If any lips have ever spoken concerning the Christ of God so as to depreciate the God of Christ, let those lips be covered with shame!”–1894, "
20 " Christ and His Gospel will always be spoken against. If you know a gospel which is approved by the age and patronized[6] by the learned, that gospel is a lie!”–1893, "
