Charles Spurgeon Quotes

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Without Christ there is no hope.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

Of two evils, choose neither.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.