Charles Haddon Spurgeon byl britský reformátor, baptista.
„Začněte učit brzy, neboť děti začínají brzy hřešit.“
Originál: (en) Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.
Zdroj: John Ploughman's Pictures: Or, More of His Plain Talk for Plain People. S. 37
Originál: (en) I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be happy as home can be.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, A Spur for a Free Horse: From the February 1866 Sword and Trowel, http://www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/spur.htm, 6.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
„Ta církev, kterou má svět nejradši, je dozajista ta, kterou si Bůh oškliví.“
Originál: (en) That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, How Saints May Help the Devil: A Sermon (No. 264), delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 24th, 1859, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons05.xli.html, 1.6.2005, 9.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 155
„Je-li v církvi, k níž příslušíš, něco, co je proti inspirovanému Slovu, opusť tu církev.“
Originál: (en) If there be anything in the church to which you belong which is contrary to the inspired Word, leave that church.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 22.
Originál: (en) A church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.
Zdroj: [Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopædia of Quotations from the Literature of All Ages, IV, W.B. Ketcham, 1895, 681, 145, angličtina]
Originál: (en) A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The First Cry from the Cross: A Sermon (No. 897), delivered on Sunday Morning, October 24th, 1869, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0897.htm, 9.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) If you do not join a church till you do find a perfect one, you must wait till you get to heaven; and, besides, my dear friend, if you ever find a perfect church they will not take you in; for I am sure they would not be perfect any longer.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus: A Sermon (No. 2038), intended for reading on Lord's-day, August 19, 1888, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons34.xxxvi.html, 1.6.2005, 9.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
„Křesťan je neustálým zázrakem.“
Originál: (en) A Christian is a perpetual miracle.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Indwelling Sin: A Sermon (No. 83), delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 1, 1856, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0083.htm, 9.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Citizenship In Heaven: A Sermon (No. 476), delivered on Sunday Evening, October 12, 1862, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons08.xlvii.html, 1.6.2005, 9.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
„Žij a zemři bez modlitby, a budeš se modlit dostatečně dlouho, až se dostaneš do pekla.“
Originál: (en) Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Immutability of God: A Sermon (No. 1), delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 7th, 1855, http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0001.htm, 9.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
„Nemůžete-li věřit Bohu v časných věcech, jak se odvažujete Mu věřit v těch duchovních?“
Originál: (en) If you cannot trust God for temporals, how dare you trust Him for spirituals?
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, C. H, Evening By Evening: Oo Readings At Eventide, https://books.google.cz/books?id=wYizSM_CBDoC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Sheldon and Company, New York, 1869, 400, 67, angličtina]
„Dbejte o zrnko víry více, než o mnoho vzrušení.“
Originál: (en) Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, Lectures to my students: a selection from addresses delivered to the students of the pastors' college, Metropolitan tabernacle, I, https://books.google.cz/books?id=j-8GAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Passmore and Alabaster, London, 1875, 204, 179, angličtina]
Originál: (en) I repeat what I have often said: I would sooner a man pointed at me in the street and called me a devil, than called me a priest; for bad as the devil has has been, he has hardly been able to match the crimes, cruelties and villainies that has been transacted under the cover of a special priesthood.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Jesus, The Delight of Heaven: A Sermon (No. 1225), http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons21.xvi.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) It is the duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome and in the Church of England, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up those two churches on suspicion, and they certainly would not be let loose again, for they so exactly answer the description.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Pray For Jesus: A Sermon (No. 717), delivered on Sunday Morning, October 21, 1866, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons12.l.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„Buďte ujištěni, že v teologii není nic nového mimo toho, co je falešné.“
Originál: (en) Rest assured that there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
Zdroj: Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers. S. 613.
Originál: (en) This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved: A Sermon (No. 2411), intended for reading on Lord's day, May 5, 1895, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons41.xviii.html, 1.6.2005, 9.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„Lidé se nikdy nestanou velikými v teologii, dokud se nestanou velikýmí v utrpení.“
Originál: (en) Men will never become great in divinity until they become great in suffering.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Christian's Heaviness and Rejoicing: A Sermon (No. 222), delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 7th, 1858, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0222.htm, 9.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, „Non Nobis, Domine!“: A Sermon (No. 2784), intended for reading on Lord's-day, June 22, 1902, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons48.xxv.html, 1.6.2005, 9.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 218
Originál: (en) I am not a Calvinist by choice, but because I cannot help it. The truths I preach are in me, part and parcel of myself: I do not carry my creed, but my creed carries me.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, C. H, Dwell Deep, Oh Dedan!:A Sermon (No. 1085), http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons18.lviii.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The doctrine which is called „Calvinism“ did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace: A Sermon (No. 385-88), Thursday, April 11, 1861, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0385.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
„Whitfield řekl: „Všichni se rodíme jako arminiáni.“ Je to milost, co nás mění v kalvinisty.“
It is grace that turns us into Calvinists.] Source: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar: A Sermon (No. 69), delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 2, 1856, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0069.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
/ Výroky / O kalvinismu a arminianismu
Originál: (en) You have heard a great many Arminian sermons, I dare say; but you never heard an Arminian prayer - for the saints in prayer appear as one in word, and deed and mind. An Arminian on his knees would pray desperately like a Calvinist. He cannot pray about free-will: there is no room for it.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Free Will—A Slave: A Sermon (No. 52), delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 2, 1855, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0052.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what now-a-days is called Calvinism. (…) It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Christ Crucified: A Sermon (No. 7-8), delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 11, 1855, http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0007.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Election: A Sermon (No. 41-42), delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 2, 1855, http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0041.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus, put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
Zdroj: [Drummond, Lewis A, Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, https://books.google.cz/books?id=u2I6TWXFEmQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, 1992, 895, 27, 0825498309, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, Lectures to my students: a selection from addresses delivered to the students of the pastors' college, Metropolitan tabernacle, II, Passmore and Alabaster, London, 1877, 12, angličtina]
„Jistě, kdyby lidská srdce byla, jaká mají být, krátká kázání by postačila.“
Originál: (en) Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Parable of the Wedding Feast: A sermon (No. 975) delivered on Lord's-day Morning, February 12, 1871, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons17.viii.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Classic Christian Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake. Let us never be silent then.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Praise Your God, O Zion!: A sermon (No. 678) delivered on Sunday Morning, February 25, 1866, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons12.xi.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Classic Christian Ethereal Library, angličtina]
„S kázáním si nemůžeme zahrávat. Kážeme pro věčnost.“
Originál: (en) We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, Spurgeon, Susannah, C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1878-1892, IV, Passmore and Alabaster, 1900, 27, angličtina]
Originál: (en) God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply His servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 65
„Samá originalita a žádné plagiátoství vede k mdlému kázání.“
Originál: (en) All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
Zdroj: [Baumann, Dan, All originality makes a dull church, Vision House Publishers, Santa Ana, California, 1976, 141, 22, 9780884490531, angličtina]
Originál: (en) If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 84
Originál: (en) True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, The Soul Winner, https://books.google.cz/books?id=PxPIve6upzkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Cosimo, Inc, New York, 2007, 260, 22, 1602067708, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks. (…) No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself.
Zdroj: All of Grace, s119
„Pamatuj, že ten, kdo skutečně činil pokání, není nikdy se svým pokáním spokojen.“
Originál: (en) Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.
Zdroj: All of Grace. S. 90.
Originál: (en) Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit. Repentance and desires after holiness never can be separated.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Christ’s First and Last Subject: A Sermon (No. 329), delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 19th, 1860, www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons06.xxx_1.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Necessity of Regeneration: A Sermon (No. 3121), published on Thursday, December 3, 1908, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons54.xlix.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]
Originál: (en) If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Secret Spot: A Sermon (No. 780), delivered on Lord's-day Morning, November 10, 1867, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons13.liii.html, 1.6.2005, 8.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
Originál: (en) I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 213
Originál: (en) You will find those who rail at the very being of a God, though in their consciences they know there is a God, yet with their lips will blasphemously deny his existence. These men say there is no God, because they wish there were none.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The First and Great Commandment: A Sermon (No. 162), delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 8, 1857, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0162.htm, 6.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
„Odpor vůči Boží svrchnovanosti je ve své podstatě ateismus.“
Originál: (en) Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, "It Pleased God": A Sermon (No. 3202), published on Thursday, June 16, 1910, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons56.xxv.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 187
„Nevíra je matka neřesti; je to matka hříchu; a je tedy, pravím, zlo jako mor – vůdčí hřích.“
Originál: (en) Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil - a master sin.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Sin of Unbelief: A Sermon (No. 3), delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 14, 1855, http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0003.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, XXXIV, Passmore and Alabaster, 1888, 476, angličtina]
„Zahálčiví lidé pokouší ďábla, aby je pokoušel.“
Originál: (en) Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 106
Originál: (en) Idleness is the key of beggary.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, John Ploughman's Pictures: Or, More of His Plain Talk for Plain People: In One Volume, Robert Carter & Bros, New York, 1884, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068788528;view=1up;seq=5, 359, 9, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Commissariat of the Universe: A Sermon (No. 3149), published on Thursday, June 17, 1909, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons55.xxv.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
„Musíme projevovat soucit vůči hříšníkům, ale ne vůči jejich hříchům.“
Originál: (en) We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, The Tenderness of Jesus: A Sermon (No. 2148), delivered on Lord's-day Morning, June 8, 1890, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons36.xxvi.html, 1.6.2005, 11.2.2016, Christian Classic Ethereal Liberary, angličtina]
