Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“He is truly great in who hath power over himself.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“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!”

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

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

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

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

“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”

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

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