Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Come my, heart, up and away!

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer bow thyself and become invincible.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.