Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your very style is fashioned upon Scripture models, and, what is better still, your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord. Prick him anywhere; and you will find that his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him.

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.