Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Suffering
There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Joy
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Duty, Wealth, Joy, Happiness
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christian
When I look into your face, O Law, my spirit shudders. When I hear your thunders, my heart is melted like wax in the midst of my bowels. How can I endure you? If I am to be tried at last for my life, surely I shall need no judge, for I shall be my own swift accuser, and my conscience shall be a witness to condemn.
—Charles Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Difficulty, Difficulties, Adversity, Forgiveness
Giving is true having.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Charity, Giving
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Enemies, Selfishness, Identity
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Sincerity
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that “he profits most who serves best” and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Business
Give because you love to give—as the flower pours forth its perfume.
—Charles Spurgeon
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: One liners, Winning
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: “He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.”
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Action, Beliefs
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: News
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again, like the stone of Sisyphus.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trouble
We can learn nothing of the gospel except by feeling its truths. There are some sciences that may be learned by the head, but the science of Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart.
—Charles Spurgeon
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Friends and Friendship
It takes a great deal of grace to be able to bear praise. Censure seldom does us much hurt. A man struggles up against slander, and the discouragement which comes of it may not be an unmixed evil; but praise soon suggests pride, and is therefore not an unmixed good.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Praise
Luck generally comes to those who look after it; and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody’s door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Luck, Fortune
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Learning, Wisdom
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain? So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of?
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Adversity
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Attitude, Anxiety, Worry, Conversation
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.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Foolishness, Wisdom
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
Hundreds would never have known want, if they had not first known waste.
—Charles Spurgeon
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prophecy
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Thought
As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trials
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- John Wesley British Methodist Religious Leader
- John Henry Newman British Theologian, Poet
- Albert Benjamin Simpson Canadian Theologian
- Frederick William Faber British Hymn Writer
- Harry Emerson Fosdick American Baptist Minister
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin American Preacher, Poet
- Russell Conwell American Baptist Minister
- George Boardman the Younger American Clergyman
- Jesse Jackson American Civil Rights Leader
- Billy Graham American Baptist Religious Leader
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