Top 1546 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Spurgeon - Page 6

There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ?

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man’s heart till man’s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Without Christ there is no hope.

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.