C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Never neglect the means of grace; God may bless us when we are not in His house, but we have the greater reason to hope that He will when we are in communion with His saints. ME691 It is an improvement certainly when we see others regular in coming twice, and some who drop in on week nights to the lecture; but there are numbers who never attend the prayer meeting, and so deny the Lord Jesus even the cheap love-token of their prayers. Well, perhaps he is no great loser, for those who do not come to the prayer meeting are not the best of church members, but a great deal the worst, as a rule. 808.248 There was a dear sister, now in heaven, who attended this Tabernacle for years, though she was so deaf that she never heard a word that was spoken. The reasons she gave for being here were that, at any rate, she could join in the hymns, and that, had she stayed away, she would have felt as if she was disassociated from the people of God; and other people, perhaps, might not have known the reason for her absence, and it might, therefore, have been a bad example to them. 2891.326 It is the duty of every Christian—nay, it is the instinct of his spiritual life—to avow the faith which he has received, and avowing it, he finds himself associated with others who have made the same profession, and he assists them in holy labour. When he is strong, he ministers of his strength to the weak; and when he is himself weak, he borrows strength from those who just then may happen to be strong in the faith. Where were our Christian institutions if church-fellowship were broken up? Plainly, if it be right for one Christian to remain out of church-fellowship, it is right for all; and then, if there were no churches, there would be no institutions, and where would the gospel itself be? 3147.266 Persons go out on Monday to business who cannot go out on Sunday. It is raining on Sunday, and it is very curious how rain on Sunday will keep some people in; their health is so weak, though the same rain on Monday does not affect them at all in that particular way. Have you never observed how some persons appear to be periodically ill on Sundays? That seems to be a favourite day for being ill; and then they will say that they cannot walk so far, and they would object to ride, the objection being, probably, to going at all, at the bottom. 3166.499 Any hypocrite comes on a Sunday, but they do not, to my knowledge, all of them come on Monday to the prayer-meeting, nor all to the week-night service on a Thursday. I am pretty certain of this, though some of them may. Week-night meetings and services are a powerful test. 3411.294