Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

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.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

My faith rests not in 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 doing for me.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.