Charles Spurgeon Quotes
"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Spirit, World)
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Travel, Truth, Lie, World)
"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Character, Forget, Name, Will)
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Happiness)
"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Enemies, Man)
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Perseverance)
"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Soul, Free will, Heaven, Hell)
"Giving is true having."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Giving)
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Humility, Right, Self)
"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Life, God, People, Determination, Doctrine, Nothing)
"I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Care, Want)
"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."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Spirit, Word)
"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Religion, Christian, Hell, Prayer, Will, Word)
"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Strength, Anxiety, Today, Tomorrow)
"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Strength, Anxiety, Sorrow, Today, Tomorrow)
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Age, Old)
"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Desperation, Heaven)
"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Opinion)
"We are all at times unconscious prophets."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Unconscious)
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Affliction, Soldiers)
"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Men, Enemy, Salvation, Self, Spirit)
"The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already."
- Charles Spurgeon
"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Sincerity, Value)
"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
(Related: Men, Wisdom, Knowledge, Fool, Fools, Right)
"Of two evils, choose neither."
- Charles Spurgeon
"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: God, Children, Generations, Names, Right, Road, Will, Word)
"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Listening, Newspapers, Nothing)
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Wealth, Appearance, Poor)
"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel."
- Charles Spurgeon
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Men, Difficulties)
"It's not the having, it's the getting."
- Charles Spurgeon
"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Faith, Life, God, Virtue, Christ, Grace, Justification)
"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Want)
"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Trials)
"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter."
- Charles Spurgeon
(Related: Killing, Will)