Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.