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We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

Charles Spurgeon

The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Freedom God Religious Word Yourself
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Deal Fools Greatness Knowledge Man Right Wisdom
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, ‘Is it pleasant?’ but, ‘Is it true?’
CHARLES SPURGEON

Learning True
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.
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Comfortable God Heaven Home Ourselves Spirit
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
Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God See Yourself
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
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God Joy Obedience Path
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
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Empty God Yourself
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
God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Goodness Togetherness Yourself
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Faith Hope Love
I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Believe People Spiritual Thinking
God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.
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Alone God Remind
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Death Forgiveness Prayer Yourself
Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don’t know where we are going, we know with whom we go.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Company Himself Leadership Path
Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.
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Justice Right Wrong
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
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Faith Greatness Heart Struggle Trouble
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
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Greatness Myself Need
Of two evils, choose neither.
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Choice Evil
It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Heart Prayer Time Yourself
If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Heaven Selfish 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
Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Himself Struggle
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
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God Man Opinion World
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
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God Marriage Sin Yourself
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?
CHARLES SPURGEON

Dedication Morning Praise
Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Death Dog Prayer

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