Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

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

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.