Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost’s remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.