"Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate;……" — Charles Spurgeon
"Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance."
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Charles Spurgeon
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1,046 Quotes by Charles Spurgeon
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I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
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The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul…
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It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is…
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It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
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Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are…
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
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Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to…
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Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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