Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.