Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.