Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.