Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Trials teach us what we are.

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.