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Gleanings Among the Sheaves

1869

C. H. Spurgeon

Gleanings Among the Sheaves

Gleanings Among the Sheaves

C. H. Spurgeon

1869

Religion/Spirituality

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Victorian England's most beloved preacher, gathered these intimate reflections from decades behind the pulpit. What he offers is not mere encouragement, it is spiritual companionship for those who find easy answers hollow. Written with his signature literary verve, where sentences roll with biblical cadence and crackle with unexpected metaphor, these meditations address the questions that keep thoughtful believers awake at night: Where is God when suffering bites? Why does discipline feel so heavy? What remains when faith grows thin? Spurgeon speaks as one who has walked through the valley himself, and that honesty gives these pages their enduring power. He treats divine promises not as abstract doctrine but as treasure hoards waiting to be opened. For readers who distrust platitudes and crave a voice that understands wrestling with faith, this book remains a faithful companion, as relevant now as it was in 1869.

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“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.””

— C. H. Spurgeon

“There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.””

— C. H. Spurgeon

“We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.””

— C. H. Spurgeon

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