Facts about Charles Spurgeon

Occup.	Clergyman
From	United Kingdom
Born	June 19, 1834
Died	January 31, 1892
Aged	57 years

Summary

Charles Spurgeon was a famous Clergyman from United Kingdom, who lived between June 19, 1834 and January 31, 1892. He/she became 57 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topics: Happiness - Finance - Trust - Men.

33 Famous quotes by Charles Spurgeon

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble"

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"Giving is true having"

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"It's not the having, it's the getting"

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"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of"

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"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory"

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"I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary"

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"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel"

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"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter"

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"I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration"

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"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life"

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self"

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"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction"

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"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation"

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"The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already"

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"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite"

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"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace"

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"Of two evils, choose neither"

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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves"

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"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers"

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"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth"

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"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell"

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"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word"

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties"

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age"

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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness"

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"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength"

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"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven"

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"By perseverance the snail reached the ark"

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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us"

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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength"

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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth"

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"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world"

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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes"

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