Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Of two evils, choose neither.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.