Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.