Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them