Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.