Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.