Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.