Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Because their example is powerful, theyre somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirits light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomons direction for the building of the Temple.

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then youre not saved yourself, be sure of that!

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!

O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?

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

Heart language is logic set on fire.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is mans honour, it is mans joy, it is mans heaven, to live unto God.

Socrates used to say, Philosophers can be happy without music; and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyans conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomons Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a consecrated ingenuity.