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Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life) QUOTES

Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life) QUOTES

1 " Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity. "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)

2 " Christian life is communion with Christ. "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)

3 " Prayer with the heart is the heart of prayer: the cry of our soul is the soul of our cry. "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)

4 " Christian life is not a dull, ethereal existence on some higher, invisible plane. It is being more full, more human—brighter, more involved and more lively. - C.H. Spurgeon "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)

5 " it is especially the love of God shown in the cross that turns and transforms the hearts of sinners. In the horrifying torture and crucifixion of Jesus we see the highest proof of the highest love.41 His bleeding makes our hearts bleed, and his shame makes us ashamed. In the cross we see a divine disgust at sin that makes sin appalling in our eyes too.42 But further, through the cross we see a love so livid that it pierces our apathy and overwhelms our desire for other things. Sinners, Spurgeon said, are naturally held back from God by lack of desire for him; “but the cross will breed desire. They are held back by love of sin; but the cross will make them hate the sin that crucified the Saviour.”43 The cross is the quintessence of that love which makes us love (1 John 4:19). "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)

6 " Preachers, therefore, must avoid vacuousness in their preaching, and they must avoid heartless intellectualism. The object of all true preaching, after all, is the heart, and preaching has failed “unless it makes men tremble, makes them sad, and then anon brings them to Christ, and causes them to rejoice. Sermons are to be heard in thousands, and yet how little comes of them all, because the heart is not aimed at, or else the archers miss the mark. "

― Michael Reeves , Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Theologians on the Christian Life)