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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore)Bible, Scripture0An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore)
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Truth0Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false.
63 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34Preaching063 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34
We must not talk to our congregations as if we were half asleep. Our preaching must not be articulate snoring. There must be power, life, energy, vigour. We must throw our whole selves into it, and show that the zeal of God's house has eaten us up.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching0Lectures to my Students
No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Faith, Hope, Love0I saw the other day in an Italian grotto a little fern, which grew where its leaves continually glistened and danced in the spray of a fountain. It was always green, and neither summer's drought nor winter's cold affected it. So let us for ever abide under the sweet influence of Jesus' love.
Lectures to my StudentsGod's Love, Abiding in Christ0Lectures to my Students
You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
Chosen by God, p. 12Preaching0Chosen by God, p. 12
We encourage our members to leave us to found other Churches; nay, we seek to persuade them to do it. We ask them to scatter through—out the land to become the goodly seed, which God shall bless. I believe that so long as we do this we shall prosper.
Church Planting0Repentance is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have committed it, a resolution to forsake it. It is, in fact, a change of mind of a very deep and practical character, which makes the man love what once he hated, and hate what once he loved.
Repentance0As to mental maladies, is any man altogether sane? Are we not all a little off the balance?
Lectures to my StudentsMental Health0Lectures to my Students
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
Child Training0I say again, that detailed obedience is the surest evidence that the Lord has forgiven your sin.
Obedience, Commandments, Assurance0Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see.
All of Grace (48)Gospel, Jesus0All of Grace (48)
Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves.
All of Grace (116)Repentance0All of Grace (116)
Hell has many gates, though heaven has just one.
Heaven, Hell0Let us beware of despising preaching. In every age of the Church, it has been God's principal instrument for the awakening of sinners and the edifying of saints. The days when there has been little or no preaching have been days when there has been little or no good done in the Church. Let us hear sermons in a prayerful and reverent frame of mind, and remember that they are the principal engines which Christ Himself employed when He was upon earth. Not least, let us pray daily for a continual supply of faithful preachers of God's Word. According to the state of the pulpit will always be the state of a congregation and of a Church.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke volume 1, (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986) 128, 129Preaching0Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke volume 1, (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986) 128, 129
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
Church, Worldliness0Preachers should not give sinners what they desire; but give them True Food until, by the Spirit, they taste and see that the Lord is good!
Preaching0Young men, to you I would honestly say that I would be ashamed to speak of a religion that would make you soft, cowardly, effeminate, spiritless, so that you would be mere simpletons in business, having no souls of your own, the prey of every designing knave.
Business, Religion0We trust Christ, and sin dies; we love him, and grace lives; we wait for him and grace is strengthened; we see him as he is, and grace is perfected forever.
Grace, Love, Sin0A man's nose is a prominent feature in his face, but it is possible to make it so large that eyes and mouth and everything else are thrown into insignificance, and the drawing is a caricature and not a portrait: so certain important doctrines of the gospel can be so proclaimed in excess as to throw the rest of truth into the shade, and the preaching is no longer the gospel in its natural beauty, but a caricature of the truth, of which caricature, however, let me say, some people seem to be mightily fond. The Spirit of God will teach you the use of the sacrificial knife to divide the offerings; and He will show you how to use the balances of the sanctuary so as to weigh out and mix the precious spices in their proper quantities.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching, Preparation0Lectures to my Students
In order to get attention, the first golden rule is, always say something worth hearing.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching0Lectures to my Students
If a man be called to preach, he will be endowed with a degree of speaking ability, which he will cultivate and increase.
Lectures to my StudentsMinistry, Calling0Lectures to my Students
If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ... - Page 333Evangelism0Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ... - Page 333
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