Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

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.

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.

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

God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers.

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.

Be interested yourself, and you will interest others.

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

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.

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

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.

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.

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

All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.