# “Men who have been pulled down” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2009-01-29T10:15:54-06:00
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“The church of God is never so well built up as when it is built up with men of 
broken hearts. I have prayed to God in secret many a time, of late, that He would
be pleased to gather out from among us a people who have a deep experience, who 
should know the guilt of sin, who should be broken and ground to powder under a 
sense of their own inability and unworthiness.

For I am persuaded that, without a deep experience of sin, there is seldom much 
belief in the doctrine of grace, and not much enthusiasm in praising the Saviour’s
name. The church needs to be built up with men who have been pulled down. Unless
we know in our hearts our need of a Saviour, we shall never be worth much in preaching
Him.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Christ’s Hospital: A Sermon on Psalm 147:3,” originally published
in _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Vol. 38 (1892),  [http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2260.htm](http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2260.htm)(
accessed 28 January 2009).

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