Charles Spurgeon Quotes

“A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.”

“Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.”

“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”

“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”

“The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.”

“Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.”

“May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!”

“To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.”

“How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves”

“When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.”

“Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.”

“Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.”

“An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.”

“But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.”

“To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.”

“He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.”

“The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.”

“What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.”

“He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.”

“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.”

“Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.”

“It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.”

“Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.”

“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!”