Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.