Charles Spurgeon

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

The more holy, the more humble.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

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.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

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