Quotes from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

The road through Irish history is made up of lanes which wind about, and never come to an end till they twist into pathways which never begin.

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

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

Feel for others--in your pocket.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

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

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

Of two evils choose neither.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

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

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

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.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.