Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning And Evening, Based On The English Standard Version Quotes
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.
He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.
God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.
Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.
I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.
Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.
Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.
Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.
Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.
All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.
Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.
In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.
The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.
All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.
If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.
Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.
The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.
The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.
When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.
Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.
Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.
No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.
If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.
There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.
Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?
One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.
Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.
Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.