Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish? Surely that precious word, Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely and that solemn promise, Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out, are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.

It is of the utmost importance to us to be kept humble. Consciousness of self-importance is a hateful delusion, but one into which we fall as naturally as weeds grow on a dunghill. We cannot be used of the Lord but that we also dream of personal greatness, we think ourselves almost indispensible to the church, pillars of the cause, and foundations of the temple of God. We are nothings and nobodies, but that we do not think so is very evident, for as soon as we are put on the shelf we begin anxiously to enquire, ‘How will the work go on without me?’ As well might the fly on the coach wheel enquire, ‘How will the mails be carried without me?’ Far better men have been laid in the grave without having brought the Lord’s work to a standstill, and shall we fume and fret because for a little season we must lie upon the bed of languishing? God sometimes weakens our strength in a way at the precise juncture when our presence seems most needed to teach us that we are not necessary to God’s work, and that when we are most useful, He can easily do without us. If this be the practical lesson, the rough schooling may be easily endured for assuredly it is beyond all things desirable that self should be kept low and the Lord alone be magnified.

If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.

Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.

Gods thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place.

If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.