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C.H. Spuregeon Quotes
AFFLICTION
They who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. 619.145
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften. 1129.484
Some of you people of God, when you get bitter waters, want to throw them away. Do
not throw a drop of it away, for that is the water you have yet to drink. Accept your
afflictions. They are a part of your education. 2301.150
All afflictions are not chastisements for sin; there are some afflictions that have
quite another end and object. 2309.241
ANGELS
How angels thus keep us we cannot tell. Whether they repel demons, counteract
spiritual plots, or even ward off the subtler physical forces of disease, we do not know.
Perhaps we shall one day stand amazed at the multiplied services which the unseen
bands have rendered to us. TD91:11
If you had eyes to see, you would perceive a bodyguard of angels always attending
every one of the blood-bought family. WC30
If two angels were sent down to earth, one to rule an empire, and the other to sweep
a street, they would have no choice in the matter, so long as God ordered them. WC50
There is not an angel in heaven with whom the meanest saint might wish to
exchange estates, for though the angels excel us now, we shall certainly excel them
in the world to come: we shall be nearer the eternal throne than any one of them,
inasmuch as Christ Jesus is our brother and not the brother of angels. He is
God-and-man in one person, and there was never God and angel in like union. 1466.186
The angels in heaven are humble because they remember who made them and kept
them angels, for they would have been devils in hell if God had not preserved them in
their first estate. 3202.294
The angels will know their Master’s property. They know each saint, for they were
present at his birthday. 3393.76
ARGUMENT
Reason is folly with the unreasonable. PP58
Some people like rows—I don’t envy their choice; I’d rather walk ten miles to get out
of a dispute than half-a-mile to get into one. PT73
Satan greatly approves of our railing at each other, but God does not. 820.392
I notice, however, that, while it is true that our gracious Master was very gentle and
patient with those who had real difficulties, yet he did not always answer everybody’s
cavil. When the difficulty was raised for the sake of questioning and disputing, when
it was mere quibbling, when the enquirer were not in earnest, and did not really wish
to know the truth, he often declined to answer them. My Master has no desire to be
merely victor in a debate: he did not come into the world to fight a battle of logic just
for the sake of winning it. 2413.229
AFFLICTION
They who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. 619.145
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften. 1129.484
Some of you people of God, when you get bitter waters, want to throw them away. Do
not throw a drop of it away, for that is the water you have yet to drink. Accept your
afflictions. They are a part of your education. 2301.150
All afflictions are not chastisements for sin; there are some afflictions that have
quite another end and object. 2309.241
ANGELS
How angels thus keep us we cannot tell. Whether they repel demons, counteract
spiritual plots, or even ward off the subtler physical forces of disease, we do not know.
Perhaps we shall one day stand amazed at the multiplied services which the unseen
bands have rendered to us. TD91:11
If you had eyes to see, you would perceive a bodyguard of angels always attending
every one of the blood-bought family. WC30
If two angels were sent down to earth, one to rule an empire, and the other to sweep
a street, they would have no choice in the matter, so long as God ordered them. WC50
There is not an angel in heaven with whom the meanest saint might wish to
exchange estates, for though the angels excel us now, we shall certainly excel them
in the world to come: we shall be nearer the eternal throne than any one of them,
inasmuch as Christ Jesus is our brother and not the brother of angels. He is
God-and-man in one person, and there was never God and angel in like union. 1466.186
The angels in heaven are humble because they remember who made them and kept
them angels, for they would have been devils in hell if God had not preserved them in
their first estate. 3202.294
The angels will know their Master’s property. They know each saint, for they were
present at his birthday. 3393.76
ARGUMENT
Reason is folly with the unreasonable. PP58
Some people like rows—I don’t envy their choice; I’d rather walk ten miles to get out
of a dispute than half-a-mile to get into one. PT73
Satan greatly approves of our railing at each other, but God does not. 820.392
I notice, however, that, while it is true that our gracious Master was very gentle and
patient with those who had real difficulties, yet he did not always answer everybody’s
cavil. When the difficulty was raised for the sake of questioning and disputing, when
it was mere quibbling, when the enquirer were not in earnest, and did not really wish
to know the truth, he often declined to answer them. My Master has no desire to be
merely victor in a debate: he did not come into the world to fight a battle of logic just
for the sake of winning it. 2413.229
