Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already

Charles Spurgeon

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another

Charles Spurgeon

What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart

Charles Spurgeon

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do

Charles Spurgeon

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises

Charles Spurgeon

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition

Charles Spurgeon

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Charles Spurgeon

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

Charles Spurgeon

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love

Charles Spurgeon

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions

Charles Spurgeon

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all

Charles Spurgeon

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world

Charles Spurgeon

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God

Charles Spurgeon