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.


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