Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

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

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

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

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.

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".

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

Trials teach us what we are.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

The more holy, the more humble.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.