Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

Where God works, He works with men that work.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

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

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.