Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

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

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Giving is true having.

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

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

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

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

It's not the having, it's the getting.

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

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

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

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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