Charles Spurgeon quote: "Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called."

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been a...
CHARLES SPURGEON

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make mu...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to p...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for j...
CHARLES SPURGEON

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi...
CHARLES SPURGEON

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES SPURGEON

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatr...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's su...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES SPURGEON

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at...
CHARLES SPURGEON

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES SPURGEON

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro...
CHARLES SPURGEON

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris...
CHARLES SPURGEON

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES SPURGEON

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne...
CHARLES SPURGEON

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that...
CHARLES SPURGEON

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kin...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a genera...
CHARLES SPURGEON

What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not ye...
CHARLES SPURGEON

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to...
CHARLES SPURGEON

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thous...
CHARLES SPURGEON

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Feast of Michael & All Angels The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of t...
CHARLES SPURGEON

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
CHARLES SPURGEON

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, bu...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him,...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the f...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can l...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. All...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering wh...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me fro...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with jo...
CHARLES SPURGEON

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware...
CHARLES SPURGEON

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obe...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, wit...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go...
CHARLES SPURGEON

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will neve...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; ther...
CHARLES SPURGEON

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and ham...
CHARLES SPURGEON

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thought...
CHARLES SPURGEON

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to C...
CHARLES SPURGEON

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
CHARLES SPURGEON

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
CHARLES SPURGEON

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All m...
CHARLES SPURGEON

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
CHARLES SPURGEON

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, a...
CHARLES SPURGEON

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

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

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

The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tu...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - ...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Of two evils, choose neither.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the princ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurge...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of h...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel ye...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of ced...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES HADDON-SPURGEON

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

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

If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Every generation needs regeneration
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Fiery trials make golden Christians
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

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

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

A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peacea...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an imp...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Zeal--what is it? How shall I describe it? Possess it, and you will know what it is. Be consumed wit...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, an...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be conti...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviou...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of e...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not "apt to teach." Yo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Of two evils, choose neither
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

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

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

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Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

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