Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes
If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.
A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.
If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.
No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.
The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.
Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.
To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.
The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.
If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.
Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.
Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.
The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.
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.
When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.
Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.