C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

The vessel of the church can never be wrecked; she rocks and reels in the mad tempest, but she is sound from stem to stern, and her Pilot steers her with a hand omnipotently wise. Her bow is in the wave, but she divides the sea, and shakes off the mountainous billows as a lion shakes the dew from off his mane! Fiercer storms than those of the present have beat upon her, and yet she has kept her head to the wind, and in the very teeth of hell’s tremendous tempests she has ploughed her glorious way: and so she will till she reaches her appointed haven. BA283 God buries the workman, but the devil himself cannot bury the work. The work is everlasting, though the workmen die. WE81 You can never kill the church till you can kill Christ; and you can never defeat her till you defeat the Lord Jesus, who already wears the crown of triumph. 1928.611 Now, it is to the honour of our Lord Jesus Christ that his cause and his character survive all the follies and all the sins of his professed people. There was an eminent minister who once said that Christianity must be true because it survived pulpits; and another one added that he felt more sure of its being true because it survived ministers, for, taking them all round, they were more likely to destroy than build up the cause of Christ. These things were said only in semi-earnest; but there is a great deal of serious truth about them. The cause of Christ must be true because the Master has survived his disciples; his wisdom has not been eclipsed by our folly, his power has not been lessened by our weakness, the glory of his holiness has not been beclouded by the unholiness of his people. 2420.314