Charles Spurgeon Quotes

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.”

“A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.”

“I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.”

“Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.”

“Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .”

“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

“It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while”

“Mind your till, and till your mind.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

“If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.”

“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.”

“Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.”

“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”

“Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.”

“No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.”

“He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”

“The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.”

“If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.”

“You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.”

“The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.”

“An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.”

“We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.”

“Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.”

“Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.”