Charles H. Spurgeon

Prayer is the longing of the soul to hold communion with the Most High, the desire of the heart to obtain blessings at His hands.''1895, Sermon 2433

The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty year…

He will glory against the church, and say, ' These are your holy preachers: you see what their preciseness is, and whither it will bring them.' He will glory against Jesus Christ Himself, and say, ' These are thy champio…

We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord.

We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of God.

Jesus must have the crown of our heart's delight; we will not dishonour our Bridegroom by mourning in his presence. We are ordained to be the minstrels of the skies, let us rehearse our everlasting anthem before we sing…

I confess that I do not believe that one human brain is capable of answering every objection that another human brain could raise against the most obvious truth in the world.

He is truly great in power who hath power over himself.

He who fights with the precious blood of Jesus, fights with a weapon which cannot know defeat. The blood of Jesus! sin dies at its presence, death ceases to be death: heaven's gates are opened.

If thou hast ever come to the blood of sprinkling, thou wilt feel thy need of coming to it every day. He who does not desire to wash in it every day, has never washed in it at all. The believer ever feels it to be his jo…

The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing.

Sickness may befall, but the Lord will give grace; poverty may happen to us, but grace will surely be afforded; death must come but grace will light a candle at the darkest hour. Reader, how blessed it is as years roll r…

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay.

Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.

February 13 MORNING ' Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of G…

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.''1895, Sermon 2437

We ought to preach the gospel, not as our views at all, but as the mind of God--the testimony of Jehovah concerning His own Son, and in reference to salvation for lost men. If we had been entrusted with the making of the…

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he res…

I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.

A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms.

We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for he was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized with the same if we would share his kingdom.

All the good that is ever done in the world is worked by the Holy Spirit and, as the Holy Spirit honors Jesus Christ, so Christ puts great honor upon the Holy Spirit. If you and I try, either as a Church or as individual…

The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials a…

In the manger and in eternity, on the cross and on his throne, in the garden and in his kingdom, among thieves or in the midst of cherubim, he is everywhere altogether lovely. Examine carefully every little act of his li…

Believer, though all things are apparently against thee, rest assured that God has made a reservation on thy behalf; in the roll of thy griefs there is a saving clause.

Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bo…

Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument--it is Christ's bl…

For the Christian there is no penal death in this world, much less any second death. He is completely freed from all the punishment as well as the guilt of sin, and the power of sin is removed too. It may stand in our wa…

God does not need your strength; He has more than enough power of His own! He asks for your weakness.''1891, Sermon 2209

February 20 MORNING ' God, that comforteth those that are cast down.' ' 2 Corinthians 7:6 AND who comforteth like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear…

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

March 10 MORNING ' In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved.' ' Psalm 30:6 ' MOAB is settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel.' Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually ric…

If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, I will sift the ho…

The truth is the sanctifier, and if we do not hear or read the truth, we shall not grow in sanctification. We only progress in sound living as we progress in sound understanding. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a lig…

There is joy in hell when a saint grows idle! There is gladness among devils when we cease to pray, when we become slack in faith and feeble in communion with God.''1893, Sermon 2303

And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall. Nehemiah 3:8 Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wal…

Now, the more holy a man gets the more he cries in this fashion. While he is low down in the scale, he puts up with sin, and he is uneasy, but when he gets to see Christ and get somewhat like him, the more nearly he appr…

Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one another!''1893, Sermon 2291

I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.

It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout Well done to the Christian man.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one

A humble desire is one which leaves everything in God's hands. The man who has it says, ' Now, though I desire this, it may be it is not a right desire. Lord, I desire only to desire what I ought to desire! My desire is…

April 1 MORNING ' Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.' ' Song of Solomon 1:2 FOR several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour's passion, and for some little time to come we shall linger there. In beginni…

No man of God need be astonished at slander, as though some strange thing had happened unto him, for the best servants of God have been subject to that trial.

The Saviour is, by His Spirit, still on earth; let this cheer us. He is ever in the midst of the fight, and therefore the battle is not doubtful.