Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-\-\ Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.