Charles Haddon Spurgeon idézet

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„Egy hajó sem járja az élet óceánját úgy, hogy ne találkozna viharral.”

„Kevésbé lehetetlen dolog a napot átfogni, egy csillagot megragadni, a szúnyoggal elefántot elnyelni, mint az örökkévalóság minden kérdését kivétel nélkül megérteni.”

„A derűs keresztyén ajánlás a hithez. Amint a kirakat elé állsz megnézni, mi mindent lehet ott venni, éppenúgy tekintenek az emberek az arcodra, vajon mi is lakik a szívedben.”

„Az 'engedelmeskedni' szó csak jelen időben létezik.”

„Az emberben rejlő képességek nagyobbak, mint ahogy azt ő tudja, és a képességek, amelyeket Isten neki adhat, nagyobbak, mint álmodná.”

„Saját tehetetlenségünk semmit sem változtat Isten ígéretein.”

„A mi időnket és Isten idejét nem ugyanazzal az órával mérik.”

„Hagyd a holnap dolgát holnapra, a mi Istenünk holnap is Isten.”

„Krisztus olyan folyó, amely sosem szárad ki; Nap, amely nem ismer fogyatkozást. Ő minden mindenekben, de Ő mindig több, mint minden.”

„Az imák a súlyuk, nem pedig a hosszúságuk szerint méretnek meg.”

„Aki azért olvassa a Bibliát, hogy abban hibát találjon, hamar felismeri, hogy a Biblia talál hibát őbenne.”

„Jobb a szívben tartani a Bibliát, mint a könyvespolcon.”

„Sokkal jobb időnként csendességbe visszavonulni, mint e világ zajától mentes élet után szentimentálisan sóvárogni.”

„Az igazi hit utat talál, vagy pedig utat készít magának.”

„Nincs olyan bölcs, aki ne volna annyira balgatag, hogy ne állítana magának egy kis bódét a hiúság vásárán. Ahol nem láttam a bolondsapkát, ott hallottam a csörgőket.”

„Néha olyan körülményekbe képzeljük magunkat, amilyent az isteni gondviselés egyáltalán nem szabott ránk; félünk ezernyi szenvedéstől, amelyek közül soha egyetlen egyet sem kell átélnünk.”

„Hogy haladhat egy lélek előre, ha állandóan változtatja az irányát?”

“Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, ray shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide? "Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: " Never be afraid when you see God's power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife and child."”

“The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.”

“In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.”

“God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.”

“Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.”

“Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.”

“Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls… Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.”

“I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”

“A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.”

“Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.”

“The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.”

“If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.”

“If religion be false, it is the basest imposition under heaven; but if the religion of Christ be true, it is the most solemn truth that ever was known! It is not a thing that a man dares to trifle with if it be true, for it is at his soul's peril to make a jest of it. If it be not true it is detestable, but if it be true it deserves all a man's faculties to consider it, and all his powers to obey it. It is not a trifle. Briefly consider why it is not. It deals with your soul. If it dealt with your body it were no trifle, for it is well to have the limbs of the body sound, but it has to do with your soul. As much as a man is better than the garments that he wears, so much is the soul better than the body. It is your immortal soul it deals with. Your soul has to live for ever, and the religion of Christ deals with its destiny. Can you laugh at such words as heaven and hell, at glory and at damnation? If you can, if you think these trifles, then is the faith of Christ to be trifled with. Consider also with whom it connects you—with God; before whom angels bow themselves and veil their faces. Is HE to be trifled with? Trifle with your monarch if you will, but not with the King of kings, the Lord of lords. Recollect that those who have ever known anything of it tell you it is no child's play. The saints will tell you it is no trifle to be converted. They will never forget the pangs of conviction, nor the joys of faith. They tell you it is no trifle to have religion, for it carries them through all their conflicts, bears them up under all distresses, cheers them under every gloom, and sustains them in all labour. They find it no mockery. The Christian life to them is something so solemn, that when they think of it they fall down before God, and say, "Hold thou me up and I shall be safe." And sinners, too, when they are in their senses, find it no trifle. When they come to die they find it no little thing to die without Christ. When conscience gets the grip of them, and shakes them, they find it no small thing to be without a hope of pardon—with guilt upon the conscience, and no means of getting rid of it. And, sirs, true ministers of God feel it to be no trifle. I do myself feel it to be such an awful thing to preach God's gospel, that if it were not "Woe unto me if I do not preach the gospel," I would resign my charge this moment. I would not for the proudest consideration under heaven know the agony of mind I felt but this one morning before I ventured upon this platform! Nothing but the hope of winning souls from death and hell, and a stern conviction that we have to deal with the grandest of all realities, would bring me here.”

“My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,— in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.”

“Mind your till, and till your mind.”

“He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.”

“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those years in mapping out a plan of living, and putting himself under rule; for he would do more with the ten well-arranged years than with the whole thirty if he spent them at random. There is much truth in that saying. A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has not learned to take aim.”

“Women are best when they are quiet.”