Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

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

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

A good character is the best tombstone.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.