Charles Spurgeon quotes

“Giving is true having.”

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Charles Spurgeon

“Of two evils, choose neither.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

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

— Charles Spurgeon

“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

— 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

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— 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

“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

— 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

“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.”

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

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

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

“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

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

— Charles Spurgeon