Charles Haddon Quotes

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds.

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

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

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

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