Quotes by Charles Spurgeon
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.
The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.
It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.