Top 1546 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Spurgeon - Page 5

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

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.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.

There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.

When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.