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“Unction is a thing which you cannot manufacture, and its counterfeits are worse than worthless; yet it is in itself priceless, and beyond measure needful if you would edify believers and bring sinners to Jesus” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 50).
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“The minister who does not earnestly pray over his work must surely be a vain and conceited man. He acts as if he thought himself sufficient of himself, and therefore needed not to appeal to God” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 47).
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“We may discover, after having laboured long and wearily in preaching, that all the honour belongs to another builder, whose prayers were gold, silver, and precious stones, while our sermonisings being apart from prayer, were but hay and stubble” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 46).
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“There is a distinct connection between importunate agonising and true success, even as between the travail and the birth, the sowing of tears and the reaping of joy” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 45).
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“None are so able to plead with men as those who have been wrestling with God on their behalf” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 43).
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On those who aspire to ministry, “those who cannot endure hardship, but are of the kid-gloved order, I refer elsewhere. We want soldiers, not fops, earnest labourers, not genteel loiterers. Men who have done nothing up to their time of application to the college, are told to earn their spurs before they are publicly dubbed
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“Men who since conversion have betrayed great feebleness of mind and are readily led to embrace strange doctrines, or to fall into evil company and gross sin, I never can find it in my heart to encourage to enter the ministry, let their professions be what they may. Let them, if truly penitent, keep in
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“I could never be satisfied with a full congregation and the kind expressions of friends; I longed to hear that hearts had been broken, that tears had been seen streaming from the eyes of penitents” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 28).
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