Spurgeon's Gold: New Selections from the Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, EnglandThis book is a collection of choice passages taken from the sermons of the famous preacher. |
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... once gave this direction : " The way to heaven is , turn to the right and keep straight on . " I would add , turn when you come to the cross . Only one turn is needed , but that must be a thorough turn and one in which you persevere ...
... once gave this direction : " The way to heaven is , turn to the right and keep straight on . " I would add , turn when you come to the cross . Only one turn is needed , but that must be a thorough turn and one in which you persevere ...
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... once , and do it effectually . Faults are always thick where love is thin . Give me a man who deliberately makes up his mind , calmly sets to work , and patiently bears all rebuffs , and I know that what he sets himself to do will be ...
... once , and do it effectually . Faults are always thick where love is thin . Give me a man who deliberately makes up his mind , calmly sets to work , and patiently bears all rebuffs , and I know that what he sets himself to do will be ...
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... once I mourned a load of sin ; When conscience felt a wound within ; When all my works were thrown away ; When on my knees I knelt to pray , Then , blissful hour , remembered well- I learned thy love , Immanuel . When storms of sorrow ...
... once I mourned a load of sin ; When conscience felt a wound within ; When all my works were thrown away ; When on my knees I knelt to pray , Then , blissful hour , remembered well- I learned thy love , Immanuel . When storms of sorrow ...
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... once we loved so well , but which now we must leave in the cold clay . I have done my best to avoid dullness , and to aim at edification . After all , we get very few cuts of the whip , considering what bad cattle we are ; and when we ...
... once we loved so well , but which now we must leave in the cold clay . I have done my best to avoid dullness , and to aim at edification . After all , we get very few cuts of the whip , considering what bad cattle we are ; and when we ...
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... once tumbling in , but happiest of all is he who has been by God's goodness kept out of the mire altogether . Do not hope because you think yourselves pure , but come to Jesus because you are impure and need to be cleansed by Him . It ...
... once tumbling in , but happiest of all is he who has been by God's goodness kept out of the mire altogether . Do not hope because you think yourselves pure , but come to Jesus because you are impure and need to be cleansed by Him . It ...
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Page 99 - And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and of an honey comb. And he took it, and did eat before them.
Page 17 - Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is within you ? Again he saith, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
Page 83 - For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Page 69 - It is the Lord! let Him do what seemeth to Him good" — and sometimes striven in vain, until the kindly Light returned? If through all these dark waters the scornful reviewer...
Page 159 - And fondness, taking the wings of a dove, Is gone like a tale of old. But mine for thee, from the chambers of joy, With strength came forth as the sun, Nor life nor death shall its force destroy, Forever its course shall run. All earth-born love must sleep in the grave, To its native dust return; What God hath kindled shall death out-brave, And in Heaven itself shall burn. Beyond and above the wedlock tie Our union to Christ we feel; Uniting bonds which were made on High, Shall hold us when earth...
Page 169 - All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me...
Page 62 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Page 159 - MARRIED LOVE. — TO MY WIFE. Over the space that parts us, my wife, I'll cast me a bridge of song; Our hearts shall meet, O joy of my life, On its arch unseen but strong. The wooer his new love's name may wear Engraved on a precious stone; But in my heart thine image I wear; That heart has long been thine own. The glowing colors on surface laid Wash out in a shower of rain ; Thou need'st not be of rivers afraid, For my love is dyed ingrain.
Page 17 - O not be all sugar, or the world will suck you down; but do not be all vinegar, or the world will spit you out. There is a medium in all things. Only blockheads go to extremes. We need not be all rock or all sand, all iron or all wax. We should neither fawn upon everybody like silly lapdogs, nor fly at all persons like surly mastiffs. Blacks and whites go together to make up a •world, and hence on the point...
Page 99 - Do as thou hast said." The Creator will not cheat his creature who depends upon his truth; and, far more, the heavenly Father will not break his word to his own child. " Remember the word unto thy servant, on which thou hast caused me to hope,