Charles Spurgeon

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!