Charles Spurgeon Quotes

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

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.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

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

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

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.

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.