Quotes from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

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.

Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.

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.

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.

The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

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

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

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.