Charles H. Spurgeon

Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance.

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

It lies not in man's right nor in man's power truly to justify the guilty. This is a miracle reserved for the Lord alone.

Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use kn…

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Every generation needs regeneration.

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is powder enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not…

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

The Word of God can take care of itself, and will do so if we preach it, and cease defending it. See you that lion. They have caged him for his preservation; shut him up behind iron bars to secure him from his foes! See…

I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.

Faith is the root of obedience, and this may be clearly seen in the affairs of life. When a captain trusts a pilot to steer his vessel into port he manages the vessel according to his direction. … Faith which refuses to…

Our little friend, the limpet, does not know much, but he clings. He is not acquainted with the geological formation of the rock, but he clings. … It is the limpet's life to cling to the rock, and it is the sinner's life…

Better the poorest real faith actually at work, than the best ideal of it left in the region of speculation. The great matter is to believe on the Lord Jesus at once.

Little faith falls, strong faith stands.

After all, prayer is nothing but taking God's promises to him, and saying to him, 'Do as thou hast said.' Prayer is the promise utilized. A prayer which is not based on a promise has no true foundation. If I go to the ba…

One word of God is like a piece of gold, and the Christian is the gold beater, and can hammer that promise out for whole weeks.

A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ.

Search human literature, if you will, but especially stand fast by that Book which is infallible, the revelation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Service coupled with cheerfulness is heart-service, and therefore true.

We would rather have one mouthful of Christ’s love, and a sip of his fellowship, than a whole world full of carnal delights.

Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants.

A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.

The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace. Much alone, and you will have much assurance; little alone with Jesus, your religion will be shallow, polluted with many doubts and fears, and…

Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and baro…

Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth and heaven—on which God's messages of love fly so fast, that before we call he answers, and while we are yet speaking he hears us. But if that telegraphic wire of faith be…

The wave of temptation may even wash you higher up upon the Rock of ages, so that you cling to it with a firmer grip than you have ever done before, and so again where sin abounds, grace will much more abound.

Faith is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments.

Little faith will save a man, but little faith cannot do great things for God.

Think more of Him to whom you look than of the look itself. You must look away even from your own looking, and see nothing but Jesus, and the grace of God revealed in Him.

It will be in vain for me to stock my library, or organise societies, or project schemes, if I neglect the culture of myself; for books, and agencies, and systems, are only remotely the instruments of my holy calling; my…

Reader, meet me in heaven! Do not go down to hell. There is no coming back again from that abode of misery.

You may go to human puddles, until you forsake the clear crystal stream which flows from the throne of God.

All our libraries and studies are mere emptiness compared with our closets. We grow, we wax mighty, we prevail in private-prayer.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism 'though Calvin was not the author of them, but simply an able writer and preacher…

[Jesus] did not say, 'Simon, son of Jonas, fearest thou me.' He did not say, 'Dost thou admire me? Dost thou adore me?' Nor was it even a question concerning his faith. He did not say, 'Simon, son of Jonas, believest tho…

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it…

That same spirit which makes us love the praise of men makes us dread the threats of men. You cannot be pleased with the adulation of mankind without becoming fearful of tour censure.

Whether you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be first and chiefly Christians—Christians—following Christ, receiving him as the great Expositor to you of God, and of the great truths of revela…

We are so little, that if God should manifest His greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under His feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns His eye yet lower,…

Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its living…

You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.

Say to your soul—Come, soul, wake up: thou art not now about to read the newspaper; thou art not now perusing the pages of a human poet to be dazzled by his flashing poetry; thou art coming very near to God, who sits in…

When we cannot pray as we would, it is good to pray as we can.

If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever.