Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.