Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible Quotes

“as a weaned child,” who has given up his old comfort, that which he thought was as necessary to him as his life. He finds that, after all, he can live without it, and grow without it, and come to a better manhood without it than with it: “My soul is even as a weaned child.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible

“You may sometimes have seen a notice put up on certain estates in the country, “Man-traps and spring guns set here,” but, if so, did you ever go round to the front door of the mansion, and say, “If you please will you tell me where the man-traps are, and whereabouts the spring guns are set?” If you had asked that question, the answer would have been, “It is the very purpose of this warning not to tell you where they are, for you have no business to trespass there at all.” So, “all unrighteousness is sin,” and you are warned to keep clear of it.” There is a sin unto death,” but you are not told what that sin is on purpose that you may, by the grace of God, keep clear of sin altogether.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible

“Psalms 143:1. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. It is a theory held by some persons of skeptical minds that the only benefit of prayer is the good it does to us. That was not David’s theory. Here, three times, he begs to be heard, and to be answered. Oh! do they think us such idiots that we would go on speaking in a keyhole with nobody to hear us? Do they think us brought so low — so destitute of wit — that we think it worth our while to speak out what is in our heart if God does not hear and does not answer? I reckon prayer to be the most idiotic of all occupations unless there be really a God to hear, and a God to answer. And the benefit of prayer is not in itself so much as in the full confidence that it is a real thing, and”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the duty of man. Or, “this is the whole of man.” It makes a man of him when he fears God and keeps his commandments; he has that which makes him “the whole man.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible

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― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible: Spurgeon's Bible Commentaries

“When the great Physician restores the soul, he restores it completely.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible

“Sometimes a loss may be a gain,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible