Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

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

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.