Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.

do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.

Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.

Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.

The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.

Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

carve your name on hearts and not on marble.

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly, but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.