Charles Spurgeon Quotes And Sayings

Cast Away Your Sloth, Your Lethargy, Your Coldness, Or Whatever Interferes With Your Chaste And Pure Love For Christ, Your Soul's Husband. Make Him The Source, The Center, And The Circumference Of All Your Soul's Range Of Delight.

He Who Has Felt His Own Ruin Will Not Imagine The Case Of Any To Be Hopeless; Nor Will He Think Them Too Fallen To Be Worthy His Regard.

A Dark Cloud Is No Sign That The Sun Has Lost His Light; And Dark Black Convictions Are No Arguments That God Has Laid Aside His Mercy.

The Astronomer Will Believe That The Most Erratic Comet Will Yet Accomplish Its Journey And Revisit Our Sphere; But We Give Up Those For Lost Who Have Not Wandered One-half The Distance From The Centre Of Light And Life.

Must Is A Hard Nut To Crack, But It Has A Sweet Kernel.

You Might Not Always Get What You Want, But You Always Get What You Expect.

Beware Of No Man More Than Of Yourself; We Carry Our Worst Enemies Within Us.

Of Two Evils, Choose Neither.

I Think That Is A Better Thing Than Thanksgiving: Thanks-living. How Is This To Be Done? By A General Cheerfulness Of Manner, By An Obedience To The Command Of Him By Whose Mercy We Live, By A Perpetual, Constant Delighting Of Ourselves In The Lord, And By A Submission Of Our Desires To His Will.

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.

Free Will Carried Many A Soul To Hell, But Never A Soul To Heaven.

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.

A Sinner Can No More Repent And Believe Without The Holy Spirit's Aid Than He Can Create A World.

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 Revealed Word Awakened Me, But It Was The Preached Word That Saved Me, And I Must Ever Attach Peculiar Value To The Hearing Of The Truth, For By It I Received The Joy And Peace In Which My Soul Delights.

If Christ Has Died For Me, Ungodly As I Am, Without Strength As I Am, Then I Cannot Live In Sin Any Longer, But Must Arouse Myself To Love And Serve Him Who Has Redeemed Me.

Has Jesus Saved Me? I Dare Not Speak With Any Hesitation Here; I Know He Has. His Word Is True; Therefore, I Am Saved.

Do You Not Realize That The Love The Father Bestowed On The Perfect Christ He Now Bestows On You?

Wisdom Is The Right Use Of Knowledge. To Know Is Not To Be Wise. Many Men Know A Great Deal, And Are All The Greater Fools For It. There Is No Fool So Great A Fool As A Knowing Fool. But To Know How To Use Knowledge Is To Have Wisdom.

A Daily Portion Is Really All We Need. We Do Not Need Tomorrow's Supply, For That Day Has Not Yet Dawned, And Its Needs Are Still Unborn.

True Prayer Is Neither A Mere Mental Exercise Nor A Vocal Performance. It Is Far Deeper Than That - It Is Spiritual Transaction With The Creator Of Heaven And Earth.

After Many Years Of Great Mercy, After Tasting Of The Powers Of The World To Come, We Still Are So Weak, So Foolish; But, Oh! When We Get Away From Self To God, There All Is Truth And Purity And Holiness, And Our Heart Finds Peace, Wisdom, Completeness, Delight, Joy, Victory.

We Do Not Pray To God To Instruct Him As To What He Should Do; Neither For A Moment Must We Presume To Dictate The Method Of The Divine Working.

Now I Will Say This To Every Sinner, Though He Should Think Himself To Be The Worst Sinner Who Ever Lived: Cry To The Lord And Seek Him While He May Be Found. A Throne Of Grace Is A Place Fitted For You. By Simple Faith, Go To Your Savior, For He Is The Throne Of Grace.

A Man Will Speedily Sit Down And Sympathize With A Friend's Griefs, But If He Sees Him Honored And Esteemed, He Is Apt To Regard Him As A Rival And Does Not So Readily Rejoice With Him. This Ought Not To Be; Without Effort, We Ought To Be Happy In Our Brother's Happiness.

We Object Not To The Narration Of The Deeds Of Our Unregenerate Condition, But To The Mode In Which It Is Too Often Done. Let Sin Have Its Monument, But Let It Be A Heap Of Stones Cast By The Hands Of Execration - Not A Mausoleum Erected By The Hands Of Affection.

None Are More Unjust In Their Judgments Of Others Than Those Who Have A High Opinion Of Themselves.

Many Men Owe The Grandeur Of Their Lives To Their Tremendous Difficulties.

You Cannot Make A Sinner Into A Saint By Killing Him. He Who Does Not Live As A Saint Here Will Never Live As A Saint Hereafter.

We Do Not Wish To Enter Heaven Until Our Work Is Done, For It Would Make Us Uneasy If There Were One Single Soul Left To Be Saved By Our Means.

By Perseverance The Snail Reached The Ark.

Men Know Not The Gold Which Lies In The Mine Of Christ Jesus, Or Surely They Would Dig In It Night And Day. They Have Not Yet Discovered The Pearl Of Great Price, Or They Would Have Sold Their All To Buy The Field Wherein It Lies.

No One Is So Miserable As The Poor Person Who Maintains The Appearance Of Wealth.

I Do Not Think I Should Care To Go On Worshipping A Madonna Even If She Did Wink. One Cannot Make Much Out Of A Wink. We Want Something More Than That From The Object Of Our Adoration.

Giving Is True Having.

Oh, Hour Of Forgiven Sin, Moment Of Perfect Pardon, Our Soul Shall Never Forget You While, Within You, Life And Being Find Immortality!

Lord Keep Us All From Sin. Teach Us How To Walk Circumspectly; Enable Us To Guard Our Minds Against Error Of Doctrine, Our Hearts Against Wrong Feelings, And Our Lives Against Evil Actions.

There Are Many Men Who Are Forgotten, Who Are Despised, And Who Are Trampled On By Their Fellows, But There Never Was A Man Who Was So Despised As The Everlasting God Has Been!

I Believe That Nothing Happens Apart From Divine Determination And Decree. We Shall Never Be Able To Escape From The Doctrine Of Divine Predestination - The Doctrine That God Has Foreordained Certain People Unto Eternal Life.

I Glory In The Distinguishing Grace Of God And Will Not, By The Grace Of God, Step One Inch From My Principles Or Think Of Adhering To The Present Fashionable Sort Of Religion.

A Good Character Is The Best Tombstone. Those Who Loved You And Were Helped By You Will Remember You When Forget-me-nots Have Withered. Carve Your Name On Hearts, Not On Marble.

Living Animals Are Too Eccentric In Their Movements, And The Law Of Gravitation Usually Draws Me From My Seat Upon Them To A Lower Level; Therefore, I Am Not An Inveterate Lover Of Horseback.

Do I Live As Carelessly And Worldly As Unbelievers While Professing To Be A Follower Of Jesus? If So, I Am Exposing Christianity To Ridicule And Leading People To Speak Evil Of The Holy Name By Which I Am Called.

As A Child, When Asked What I Would Be, I Usually Said I Was Going To Be A Huntsman. A Fine Profession, Truly!

Lord Jesus, We Come Just As We Are; This Is How We Came At First, And This Is How We Come Still, With All Our Failures, With All Our Transgressions, With All And Everything That Is What It Ought Not To Be, We Come To Thee.

It Is A Most Delightful Reflection That If I Come To The Throne Of God In Prayer, I May Feel A Thousand Defects, But Yet There Is Hope. I Usually Feel More Dissatisfied With My Prayers Than With Anything Else I Do.

Humility Is To Make A Right Estimate Of One's Self.

There Is Such A Thing As 'Thanks-feeling' - Feeling Thankful. This Ought To Be The General, Universal Spirit Of The Christian.

Let Not A Libation Of Tears Be The Only Offering At The Shrine Of Jesus; Let Us Also Rejoice With Joy Unspeakable. If We Have Need To Lament Our Sin, How Much More To Rejoice At Our Pardon!

It Is Not Well To Make Great Changes In Old Age.