Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
• A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
• Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
• By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
• Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
• Giving is true having.
• Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
• I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
• I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
• I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
• If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
• Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
• It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
• It is not well to make great changes in old age.
• If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
• None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
• We are all at times unconscious prophets.
• The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
• The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
• Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
• Wisdom is 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 knowledge is to have wisdom.
• Of two evils, choose neither.
• We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
• No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
• No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
• Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
• It's not the having, it's the getting.
• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
• You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
• Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
• You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
• The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself.
• Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it; chocolate helps with the reacting part.