Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel.

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Renunciation is in our blood.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can return home and know what it means to be there. Over and over the Lord tells us why the plan is worth our sacrifice - and His. Eve called it "the joy of our redemption." Jacob called it "that happiness which is prepared for the saints." Of necessity, the plan is full of thorns and tears - His and ours. But because He and we are so totally in this together, our being "at one" with Him in overcoming all opposition will itself bring us "incomprehensible joy."

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.