Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Every generation needs regeneration.

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

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.

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…

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.

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

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

Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

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…

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.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Ministers should be stars to give light,not clouds to obscure. In some cases the text is as clear as a mirror, till the preacher's breath bedims it.

We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and dis…

There must be knowledge of God before there can be love to God: there must be a knowledge of divine things, as they are revealed, before there can be an enjoyment of them.

When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.

There is no exception to this rule: All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant. They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How…

He was inspired, and yet he wants books!He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books!He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books!He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books!He ha…

Our motto is, 'With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere.'

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He bids. We feel that nothing can be wr…

If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst do nothing; and if thou dost live in close communion with Christ, there will be no fear of thy h…

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all lux…

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.

There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by a wound. All that you ever hear of such a soldier is that his spurs jingle on the pavem…

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes 'that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the…