Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

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

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.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to a person who isn't.

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

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Where God works, He works with men that work.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.