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Spurgeon: Charles Spurgeon Quotes

  • Beware of not man more than yourself, we carry our worst enemies within us.
  • Of two evils, choose neither.
  • I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey  of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.
  • The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.
  • Nobody will ever outgrow Scriptures, the book widens and deepens with our years.
  • You say, “If I if I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
  • The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
  • Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
  • 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.
  • I have concentrated all my prayers into one, and that prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
  • 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.
  • When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.
  • Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
  • Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
  • Train up a child in the way he should go- but be sure you go that way yourself.
  • A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
  • Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
  • The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
  • I have a great need for Christ, I have a great Christ for my need.
  • Giving is true having.
  • You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
  • Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
  • There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
  • If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
  • I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, through upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
  • It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
  • 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 as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
  • Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
  • No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
  • The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
  • 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.
  • Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
  • It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
  • A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  • It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.