Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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Charles Spurgeon

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 19, 1834

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Charles Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Charles Spurgeon

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Charles Spurgeon

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

Charles Spurgeon

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Charles Spurgeon