Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
Charles SpurgeonFree-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.
Charles SpurgeonIt has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a โcallโ is the man who devotes all his time to what is called โthe ministry,โ whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.
Charles SpurgeonIt would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.
Charles Spurgeon