Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Your damnation is your own election, not God's.

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.