Charles Spurgeon Quotes

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Feel for others - in your pocket

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

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 sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

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

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.