Charles Spurgeon Quotes

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.