Frases de Charles Spurgeon

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“La oración debe ser la llave del día y el cerrojo de la noche.”

“No es su permanencia en Cristo lo que lo salva, sino la permanencia de él en usted.”

“Por medio de la perseverancia, el caracol llegó al arca.”

“No dejes que lo que es urgente tomar el lugar de lo que es importante en tu vida.”

“Nadie puede hacerme un favor más grande en este mundo que orar por mí.”

“Un hijo de Dios debe ser una bienaventuranza visible de gozo y felicidad, y una doxología viviente de gratitud y adoración.”

“Si le contáis vuestras aflicciones a Dios. Las sepultáis en la tumba. Nunca volverán a levantarse cuando las hayáis encomendado a Él. Si hacéis rodar vuestra carga a algún otro lugar, rodará de vuelta a donde estaba. Nunca he confiado en vano en una promesa de Dios. Me he visto puesto en posiciones de gran peligro, he conocido una gran necesidad, he sentido agudos dolores, y me he sentido acosado por incesantes ansiedades, pero el Señor, ha sido fiel a cada línea de Su Palabra. Cuando he confiado en Él, Él me ha llevado a través de todo sin fallar.”

“No existe un pecado que el cristiano no pueda vencer, si descansa en Dios para hacerlo.”

“Estoy tan contento de que Dios me haya escogido antes de la fundación del mundo, porque nunca me hubiera escogido después de que nací.”

“Libremente confieso que tengo un dolor más profundo por el pecado hoy que cuando acepté al salvador más de treinta años atrás. Odio el pecado con más intensidad hoy que cuando estaba bajo convicción. Existen ciertas cosas que yo no sabía antes que eran pecado, y ahora reconozco que son pecado. Ahora tengo un sentido más agudo de la vileza en mi corazón que cuando primero vine a Cristo…”

“No entiendo mucho acerca de la fe a ojo seco; se que vine a Cristo por el camino de cruz de llanto…Cuando vine al calvario por fe, fue con gran llanto y súplicas, confesando mis transgresiones, y deseando encontrar salvación en Jesús, y en Jesús solamente.”

“Poca fe bastará para llevarnos al cielo, mas una gran fe traerá el cielo hasta nosotros.”

“El dolor por el pecado es una lluvia perpétua, una ducha dulce, la cual para el hombre verdaderamente salvo dura toda la vida…Siempre se siente afligido porque ha pecado…Nunca dejará de sentirse afligido hasta que todo el pecado se halla ido.”

“Ahora he concentrado todas mis oraciones en una, y esa es esta: Que pudiera yo morir a mi mismo, y vivir solo para El.”

“Aquel que hizo al hombre se hizo hombre.”

“Si los pecadores serán condenados, al menos que salten al infierno por sobre nuestros cuerpos. Y si perecen, que perezcan con nuestros brazos en torno a sus rodillas, implorando por que se queden. Si el infierno ha de ser llenado, al menos que lo sea con nuestras exhortaciones y que nadie vaya allí sin haber sido avisado y sin que nadie haya orado por esa persona.”

“El libro es una producción divina; es perfecto, y es el tribunal supremo de apelación; es el juez que termina con toda contienda. Ni en sueños blasfemaría de mi Hacedor, como tampoco pondría en tela de juicio la infalibilidad de su Palabra.”

“Creo que la penitencia dolorosa aún existe, aunque últimamente, no he oído mucho acerca de ella. La gente parece saltar en fe muy rápido en estos días… Espero que mi viejo amigo arrepentimiento no haya muerto. Estoy desesperadamente enamorado con el arrepentimiento; parece ser la hermana gemela de la fe.”

“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.”