Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Belief
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I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
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Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.
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True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.
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Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
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Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.
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If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.
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Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
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It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.
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If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.
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He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
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The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.
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The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
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God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
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God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
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If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
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Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
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When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
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This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
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I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.
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As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.
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You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
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