Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ?

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎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.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.

God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

All places are places of worship to a Christian.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!