There are times when solitude
Charles Spurgeon
- Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.
Charles Spurgeon
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
Charles Spurgeon
When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.
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We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!
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.
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 H. 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
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.
Charles Spurgeon
If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
Charles Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness
Charles Spurgeon
The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.
Charles Spurgeon
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
Charles Spurgeon
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust.
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.
C.H. Spurgeon
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Charles Spurgeon
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
