Charles Spurgeon

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

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

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

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

Never be afraid of your Bibles.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.