Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, No, I cannot stop, for I am Christs. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christs, and cannot loiter.

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to Gods warriors than standing still.

We do not need them. They would hinder rather than help our praise. Sing unto him. This is the sweetest and best music. No instrument like the human voice. What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettiness of a quartet, bellows, and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father in heaven, and ascends to devout adoration, Hallowed be Thy name. The child lisping, Abba, Father, grows into the cherub crying, Holy, Holy, Holy.

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.