British - Clergyman | June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
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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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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
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'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
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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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My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
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After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
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