Quotes by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Feel for others - in your pocket”

“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.”

“If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.”

“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.”

“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”

“Our deeds need nearly always to be purer than our motives.”

“It is easy to be a pot in a world full of kettles.”

“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you dont throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”

“Our actions need nearly always to exceed our thoughts in purity.”

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