Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

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.

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

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

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

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

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

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

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.

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 more holy, the more humble.

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

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

God is with us, and His power is around us.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.