Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Prayer can never be in excess.

If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.