Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Having made Jesus your all, you shall find your all in Jesus.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. And if you are lost trusting in Christ, I will be lost with you and will go to hell with you. I must do so, for I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God.

The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you. Why should he? Has he not come on purpose that he may testify of Christ? Did not Jesus say, ‘He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you’? Yes, the subject was Christ, and nothing but Christ, and such is the teaching which the Spirit of God will own. Be it ours never to wander from this central point: may we determine to know nothing among men but Christ and his cross.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.