Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Scripture
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The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.
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You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.
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The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.
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Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.
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The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
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Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
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Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
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Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
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The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.
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Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.
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Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!
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If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.
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To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
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Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.
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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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Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
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No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
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If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
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Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
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I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.
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Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
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