Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.
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?
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.