Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.
I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.
To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!
Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.
If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.
When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.
We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
