Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.