Top 1546 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Spurgeon - Page 26

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

Suffering saints are living seed.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

There are many locks in my house and all with different keys, but I have one master-key which opens them all. The Lord has many treasures and secrets all shut up from carnal minds with locks which they cannot open. But he who walks in fellowship with Jesus possesses the master-key which will open to him all the blessings of the covenant and even the very heart of God.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Come my, heart, up and away!

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Trials teach us what we are.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.