Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy law.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.

Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out, and come what may, you will be respected though abused. They may say you are an enthusiast, a fanatic, a fool, but those names from the world are titles of praise and glory. The world does not take the trouble to nickname a man unless he is worth it. It will not give you any censure unless it trembles at you.

Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

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.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.