Charles Spurgeon Quotes

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Suffering saints are living seed.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.