Top 1546 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Spurgeon - Page 4

He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

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.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

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

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.

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!

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

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.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.