Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Men to be truly won must be won by truth.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

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.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

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