When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.
—Charles Spurgeon
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hope, Faith
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faith
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Employment
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Conversation, Anxiety, Attitude, Worry
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Perfection
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Happiness, Strength, Charm, Action, Moderation
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
There are no crown-wearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trials
Trust in the person’s promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trust
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Religion, Hypocrisy
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
We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
The wishing gate opens into nothing.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Wishes
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Evil
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
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Temptation
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: One liners, Idleness
Learn to say “No”; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Temptation
Hundreds would never have known want, if they had not first known waste.
—Charles Spurgeon
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: Wisdom, Foolishness
Because God is the living God, he can hear;
because he is a loving God, he will hear;
because he is our covenant God, he has bound himself to hear.
—Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered…the strength not length of your prayer…wins…God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer
A beggar’s rags may cover as much pride as an alderman’s gown.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Pride
Holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness.
—Charles Spurgeon
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: News
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
—Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Justice, Soldiers, Trials
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