Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

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

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!

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

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

He is truly great in who hath power over himself.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Ah! dear friend,you little know the possibilities which are in you.

A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Fiery trials make golden Christians.