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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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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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“We must feel that woe is unto us if we preach not the gospel; the word of God must be unto us a fire in our bones, otherwise, if we undertake the ministry, we shall be unhappy in it, shall be unable to bear the self-denials incident to it, and shall be of little service
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“The first sign of the heavenly call is an intense, all-absorbing desire for the work” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 23).
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“But when the Holy Spirit prophesies expressly through Paul’s lips that an apostasy is coming (II Thess. 2:3) – which cannot come unless the pastors are the first to forsake God – why are we here willfully blind to our own destruction?” (John Calvin, Institutes, Vol. 2, p. 1170).
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“…whatever ‘call’ a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry” (C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 3).
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