Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Without Christ there is no hope.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.