Top quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple. Votes: 8

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. Votes: 8

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it. Votes: 7

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling. Votes: 7

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune. Votes: 7

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. Votes: 6

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him Votes: 5

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations. Votes: 4

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. Votes: 4

The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads. Votes: 4

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. Votes: 4

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy. Votes: 4

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. Votes: 3

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness. Votes: 1

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Votes: 1

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. Votes: 1

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! Votes: 1

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Votes: 1

The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer. Votes: 1

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. Votes: 1

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day. Votes: 1

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well. Votes: 1

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. Votes: 1

God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. Votes: 1

In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface. Votes: 1

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. Votes: 1

Be interested yourself, and you will interest others. Votes: 1

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him. Votes: 1

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. Votes: 1

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. Votes: 0

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Votes: 0

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. Votes: 0

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour. Votes: 0

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Votes: 0

Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. Votes: 0

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Votes: 0

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work. Votes: 0

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. Votes: 0

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. Votes: 0

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 0

How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him. Votes: 0

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do. Votes: 0

God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything. Votes: 0

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing. Votes: 0

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule. Votes: 0

Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive. Votes: 0

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed. Votes: 0

God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it; Votes: 0

His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God! Votes: 0

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. Votes: 0

Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? Votes: 0

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity. Votes: 0

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones. Votes: 0

Solemn silence makes noble worship. Votes: 0

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. Votes: 0

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy. Votes: 0

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness. Votes: 0

One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear. Votes: 0

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves. Votes: 0

If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast. Votes: 0

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. Votes: 0

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God. Votes: 0

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau. Votes: 0

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. Votes: 0

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God. Votes: 0

Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. Votes: 0

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. Votes: 0