Charles Spurgeon Quotes (60 Quotes)


    The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

    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.

    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.

    As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them

    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.


    Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables


    It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

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

    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.

    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.

    Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.

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

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

    If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.


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

    No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

    A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots

    Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.


    If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

    If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it for your Godyour Godis what your soul craves after then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.

    Nobody ever outgrows scripture the Book widens and deepens with our years

    Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

    You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.


    None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

    Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

    When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name


    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.

    It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

    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.

    Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

    If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

    A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

    Do you think yourself wise Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

    No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

    There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work

    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


    A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

    We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

    A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

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

    Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

    Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

    You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

    When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through


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