Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.

Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.'

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

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.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of him.

Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win