Charles Spurgeon

"Giving is true loving."

- Charles Spurgeon

"It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Can any man here estimate the number of his own sins from the first transgression of his childhood until grey old age, or the present period of his life?"

- Charles Spurgeon

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. . . Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. . . . It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Without Christ, there is no hope."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel."

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Charles Spurgeon

"It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Charles Spurgeon

"All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching."

- Charles Spurgeon

"In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'"

- Charles Spurgeon

"God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

- Charles Spurgeon

"What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men’s testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil’s back, by our willful disobedience of God’s law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss."

- Charles Spurgeon

"“God’s commands are all promises of God’s enablings.”"

- Charles Spurgeon

"A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved."

- Charles Spurgeon

"I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all."

- Charles Spurgeon

"When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The atonement of Christ is capable of removing from men, all sorts, sizes, and dyes of iniquity."

- Charles Spurgeon

"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Let the pure gospel go forth in all its lion-like majesty, and it will soon clear its own way and ease itself of its adversaries."

- Charles Spurgeon

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that. It is a spiritual transaction with the creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

""True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.""

- Charles Spurgeon

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"At the end of the day, I rest in the peace that comes from knowing You, Lord. Guide me as I sleep, and renew my strength for tomorrow."

- Charles Spurgeon

"And when the Lord Jesus has become your peace, remember, there is another thing: good will towards men. Do not try to keep Christmas without good will towards men."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

- Charles Spurgeon