Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes
Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
1901Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
2811 When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
3785 You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
3892 O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
2075 Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find their law and profits,
their judges and chronicles,
their epistles and revelations.
3263 Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.
4739 Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
2426 The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.
1323 When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
3841 The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.
3384 A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
3301 A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
4472 Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
2430 When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
2832 That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!
2953 Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
4533 The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer.
2208 We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...
3212 Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
4274 In all I have ever done for Him, you have a large share. For in making me so happy you have fitted me for service. Not an ounce of power has ever been lost to the good cause through you. I have served the Lord far more, and never less, for your sweet companionship.
1255 The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.
4659 Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.
4933 We do not need them. They would hinder rather than help our praise. Sing unto him. This is the sweetest and best music. No instrument like the human voice. What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettiness of a quartet, bellows, and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it.
1985 The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
2850 WI have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.
2463 We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.
4900 To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
2171 Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.
3002 Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.
4272 The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
2316 The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.
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