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Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Glory God Yourself
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Break God Greatness Man Pieces
A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Himself Life Need Person Surrender
When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Animal Book Religious Yourself
Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Patience Yourself
No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Kindness Man Prayer True World
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Affection God Government Men Mindset Rule
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Enjoyment Happiness
You will never know God’s strength until He has supported you in deep waters.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Hard Time Himself Strength Support Yourself
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Atheist Devil Strange Vice
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
CHARLES SPURGEON

Light Reading World Yourself
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Blessing Ourselves Writing
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Greatness Myself Need
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Empty God Yourself
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Believe Death Joy Punishment
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Forever Life Light Live Reason Time
Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Care Mindset Yourself
God has so made man’s heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Heart Himself Man
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Joy Obedience Path
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Blessing God Greatness Prosperity See
Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Justice Right Wrong
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Accomplishment Effort Greatness Talent
The world’s one and only remedy is the cross.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Oneself World
My entire theology can be condensed into four words, ‘JESUS DIED FOR ME’.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Death Devotion Gratitude Myself
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Born Death Smile
Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Danger God Religious

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