Charles Spurgeon

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnifi ed!' This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for the devils believe and tremble. And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their father in sin, but how will it look when they are for ever lost?