Quote #31

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.

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More from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

  1. He will not be a wise man who does not study the human heart.
  2. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rat…
  3. He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.
  4. I believe that our God is best praised in common things. He who molds a shoe with a right motive is praising God as much as the seraph who …
  5. God will not have his people eat the fat and drink the sweet unless they are prepared to carry their burden and give a portion to others, a…
  6. I do not know any subject that so much depresses me, humbles me, and lays me in the dust, as the thought of my omissions.
  7. God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
  8. I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him.

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