The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the princ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of ced...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is not well to make great changes in old age.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Every generation needs regeneration
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Fiery trials make golden Christians
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass
CHARLES H. SPURGEON God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON He that deserves nothing should be content with anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving ca...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES SPURGEON I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been a...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make mu...
CHARLES SPURGEON Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
CHARLES SPURGEON I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to p...
CHARLES SPURGEON Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for j...
CHARLES SPURGEON We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi...
CHARLES SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES SPURGEON True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world...
CHARLES SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
CHARLES SPURGEON Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatr...
CHARLES SPURGEON Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's su...
CHARLES SPURGEON We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
CHARLES SPURGEON The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...
CHARLES SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES SPURGEON There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at...
CHARLES SPURGEON After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...
CHARLES SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES SPURGEON We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ...
CHARLES SPURGEON O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe...
CHARLES SPURGEON Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast...
CHARLES SPURGEON A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris...
CHARLES SPURGEON If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES SPURGEON A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne...
CHARLES SPURGEON I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that...
CHARLES SPURGEON In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
CHARLES SPURGEON The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kin...
CHARLES SPURGEON Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
CHARLES SPURGEON I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a genera...
CHARLES SPURGEON What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES SPURGEON A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not ye...
CHARLES SPURGEON I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to...
CHARLES SPURGEON It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thous...
CHARLES SPURGEON This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of ...
CHARLES SPURGEON We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Feast of Michael & All Angels The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of t...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
CHARLES SPURGEON There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, bu...
CHARLES SPURGEON Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him,...
CHARLES SPURGEON The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the f...
CHARLES SPURGEON Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can l...
CHARLES SPURGEON Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. All...
CHARLES SPURGEON Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
CHARLES SPURGEON When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering wh...
CHARLES SPURGEON Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me fro...
CHARLES SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
CHARLES SPURGEON Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with jo...
CHARLES SPURGEON My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their ...
CHARLES SPURGEON As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware...
CHARLES SPURGEON I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obe...
CHARLES SPURGEON Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him ...
CHARLES SPURGEON O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, wit...
CHARLES SPURGEON Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we ...
CHARLES SPURGEON If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go...
CHARLES SPURGEON You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will neve...
CHARLES SPURGEON Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; ther...
CHARLES SPURGEON We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which ...
CHARLES SPURGEON One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and ham...
CHARLES SPURGEON We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thought...
CHARLES SPURGEON The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to C...
CHARLES SPURGEON If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
CHARLES SPURGEON I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
CHARLES SPURGEON The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...
CHARLES SPURGEON Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If...
CHARLES SPURGEON Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a...
CHARLES SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
CHARLES SPURGEON My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All m...
CHARLES SPURGEON We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one...
CHARLES SPURGEON Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
CHARLES SPURGEON To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in ...
CHARLES SPURGEON May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little san...
CHARLES SPURGEON Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, a...
CHARLES SPURGEON It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for th...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Giving is true having.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is not well to make great changes in old age.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; a...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wishing gate opens into nothing.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. SPURGEON Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
C. H. SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tu...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - ...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON