100+ Charles Spurgeon Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

Topics: Christian, Christian Inspirational, Needs

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O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Topics: Children, Kindness, Heart, Tender Mercies, Loving Kindness

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

Topics: Men, Christ, Partnership, Saviour

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Topics: Divorce, Sin, Christ

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Topics: Wonder, Made, Should

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Topics: Jesus, One Day, Today

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Topics: Thanksgiving, Being Happy, Gratitude, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Topics: Men, Self, Soul, Human Soul, Self Righteousness

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

Topics: Prayer, Body, Arms

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, People, Crucifixion

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Topics: Morning, Prayer, Men, Morning Prayer

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Topics: Greatness, Thinking, Sin, Mighty God, Greatness Of God

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

Topics: Positive, Happiness, Attitude, Money Isn't Everything, Success Happiness

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Topics: Heart, Hands, Trust In God, Tracing

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

Topics: Trust, Travel, Truth, Half Truth, Half Way

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

Topics: His Love, Lord, Broads, Evermore, Seasons Change

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

Topics: Prayer, Mind, Benefits, Adverse, Fretting

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Topics: God, Faith, Christian, Hope And Faith, Faith Hope And Love

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Topics: God, Christian Inspirational, Confidence In God, God Is In Control, God's Will

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

Topics: Christian, Wish, Evangelism

Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

Topics: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Pharisaism, Stuck Up

The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

Topics: Jesus, Looks, Salvation, Jesus Love

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

Topics: Boys, Men, Doors, Shutters, Back Doors

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Topics: Prayer, Groaning, Revival Prayer

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Topics: Names, Church, Prejudice

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Topics: Book, Years, Scripture, Outgrowing

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

Topics: Grace, Soul, Doe, Body Soul And Spirit, Saved By Grace

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

Topics: Doe, Atoms, Flavor

There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

Topics: Christian, Kings, Father, Infliction, Christian Life

I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Feelings

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Topics: Perseverance, Life Changing, Not Giving Up, Dedication And Perseverance, Perseverance In Love

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Topics: Dog, Winning, Soul

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

Topics: Hardship, Pancakes, Eating

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

Topics: Heart, Men, Christ

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Topics: Good Things, Born

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.

Topics: Cheer, Hard Times, Talking

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Topics: Helping, God Help, God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

Topics: Half, Neglect, Arise

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

Topics: Like You, Salvation, Savior

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

Topics: Kindness, Men, World, Pray For Me

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

Topics: Jesus, Angel, Laughing

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

Topics: Blood, Veins, Way, Stale, Godliness

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

Topics: Eye, Christ, Disputes, Discussing

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

Topics: Men, Dying, Savior

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Topics: Teaching, Trials, Soil

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

Topics: Law, Sorrow, Cost

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

Topics: Thinking, Grace, Today, Grace And Mercy

Without Christ there is no hope.

Topics: Christ, No Hope

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

Topics: Believe, People, Church, Taunting

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Topics: Wisdom, Distance, Home

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

Topics: Christian, Heaven, Grace

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

Topics: Done, Christ, Holy, Hope And Faith, Faith Hope And Love

The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

Topics: Real, Lying, Home

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Topics: Grace, Soul, Doe

He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal.

Topics: Prayer, Heaven, Overcoming

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Topics: Sleep

His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

source: - Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.170, Barbour Publishing

Topics: Heart, Eye, Hands

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Topics: Divorce, Married, Sin

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Topics: Voice, Awe

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Topics: Heaven, Grace, Promise

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Topics: Yesterday, Sin, Mercy

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

Topics: Prayer, Moving, World

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

source: - Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Topics: Gods Will

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Topics: Men, Order, May

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

Topics: Wise, Heart, Hands

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Topics: Giving, Grace, Saint, Gates Of Hell

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

Topics: Song, Rehearsal, Praise

If I only had one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of Him. I am sure no minister will ever repent of having preached Him too much.

Topics: Jesus, Regret, Thinking

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Topics: Trust In God, Bundles

When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.

Topics: Jesus, Believe, Heart, Divine Grace

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

Topics: Adversity, Frost, Remember, Goodness Of God

When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.

Topics: Thinking, Compassion, Kind

I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.

Topics: Believe, Men, Thinking

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Topics: Jewels, Grace, Gutters

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Topics: Fire, Law, Broken

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

Topics: Christian, Humble, Choices

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

Topics: Jesus, Lord, Savior

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Topics: Children, Heart, Ties

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Topics: Men, Miserable, Stranger

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Topics: Lions

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Topics: Prayer, Praise, Should, Supplication

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Topics: Grace, Doctrine, Discourse, Ostentatious

If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

Topics: Book, Cutting, Pieces

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

Topics: Men, Heaven, Satan

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Topics: Alternatives, Sin

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Topics: Men, Wrath, Giving, Wrath Of God

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

Topics: Eye, Son, Looks

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Topics: Gossip, Blind, Deaf, Disgusted

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Topics: Mean, Grace, Growth

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

source: - Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.225, Discovery House

Topics: Stars, Children, Names

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

Topics: Men, Thrones

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Topics: Rivals, Rooms, Moments

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

Topics: Men, Holy, Conscious

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Topics: Passion, Fire, Pathos

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

Topics: Heart, Matter, Praying, Matters Of The Heart

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

Topics: Men, Long, Complaining

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

Topics: Heart, Mind, Tears

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

Topics: Men, He Man, Word Of God

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Topics: Doe, Affliction

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

Topics: Men, Blood, May

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Topics: Believe, Men, Kind

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Topics: Lions, Scripture, Heard, Famous Book

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Topics: Sheep, Church, Shepherds

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

Topics: Lying, Men, Ministry

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Topics: Prayer, Grace, Thermometers

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Topics: Faults

If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.

Topics: Men, Important, Ease, Undecided

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

Topics: Jesus, Heaven, Lord

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Topics: Hands

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

Topics: Christian, Dying, Lasts

Never be afraid of your Bibles.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Topics: Men, Growing, Christ, Christlikeness

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Topics: Wise, Kings, Men, Cedars

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

Topics: Yield, Hands, Weakness

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Topics: Pride, Discipline, Matter, Whip It

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Topics: Christian, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

Where God works, He works with men that work.

Topics: Men, Servant Of God

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

Topics: Men, Made, God Image

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

Topics: Trials, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?

Topics: Brother, Heart, Thinking, Accomplices

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Topics: Powerful, Church, Christ

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Topics: Views, Christ, Superficial

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Topics: Done, Firsts, Christ

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Topics: Worst, Unbelief

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

Topics: Jesus, Giving, Miracle

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

Topics: Believe, Special, Doctrine, Special Love

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Topics: Looks, Worship, Worship God, Places Of Worship

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Topics: Rewards, Permission, Serving God, Christian Service

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Topics: Waiting

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Topics: Strong, Jesus, Hate

If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

Topics: Evil, My Best Friend, Sake

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

Topics: Heart, Trials, Trouble, Spades, Great Hearts

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Topics: May, Made, Certain

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Topics: Winning, Men, Two, Holiness Of God

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Topics: Speech, Remember, Omniscience

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Topics: Joy, Honor, Pathways, Being Joyful

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Topics: Church, Would Be, Doing Good

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Topics: Grace, Saint, Holiness

The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.

Topics: Doe, Needs, Lions, Caged

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

Topics: Believe, Teaching, Taught

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Topics: Lying, Believe, Men

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Topics: Mean, Men, Coward, Mean Spirited

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

Topics: Believe, Destiny, Facts, Dreamy, Faith Trust

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

Topics: Thinking

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Topics: Prayer, Tears, Repentance, Godlessness, True Repentance

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Topics: Mother, Nurse, Grace, Grace And Mercy

The more holy, the more humble.

Topics: Humble, Holy

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

Topics: Church, Christ

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

Topics: Long, Trials, May, Little Faith

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Topics: Years, Soul, Would Be, Siberia

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Topics: Wonder

If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.

Topics: Jesus, Believe, Long, Life Saving

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

Topics: Hands, Doe, Wonderful, God Works In Mysterious Ways

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

Topics: Christian, Men, Knowing

I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace.

Topics: Believe, Ignorance, People

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Topics: Men, March, Gods Will

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Topics: Empty

A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable....

Topics: Christian, Heart, Clouds, Tender Hearts

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Topics: Art, Doubt, Whispering

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.

Topics: Soul, World, Winner, Soul Winning

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

Topics: Christian, Christ, Should, Christlikeness

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Topics: Prayer, Heart, Ghost

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Topics: Unfaithful, Sin, Glory Of God, God's Faithfulness

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Topics: Christian, Children, Wings

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Topics: Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Topics: Long, Doe, Care

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Topics: Adversity, Blessing, Prosperity

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Topics: Feet, Sin, Crosses

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Topics: Believe, Doctrine, Good Work

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Topics: Real, Muse

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Topics: Doe, Facts

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Topics: Sleep, Soul, Church

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

Topics: Christ, Trust Yourself

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Topics: Dull, Originality, Plagiarism

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Topics: Humble, Pride, Self

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

Topics: Men, Long, Firsts

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

Topics: Jesus, Stop Complaining, Weeping

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

Topics: Married, Sin, Christ

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Topics: Affliction, Comforter

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.

Topics: Christian, Wise, Feelings

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

Topics: Heart, Grace, Honey

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Topics: Strong, Men, Weakness, Lord God, Helpers

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

Topics: Christian, Fear, Real

They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.

Topics: Law, Grace, Holy

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Topics: Laughter, Rotten, Littles

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

Topics: Christ, Sinfulness, Form, God Is Able, Greatness Of God

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Topics: Character, Writing, Rocks, Hardness, Inscriptions

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Topics: Christian, Men, Museums, Time Of Need

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not.

Topics: God, Christian, Religious

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

Topics: God, Christian, Motto, Without God

I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Topics: Grief, Wind, Soul

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Topics: Long, Evil, World, Evil World

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Topics: Giving, Grace

If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

Topics: Children, Evil, Soul, Wormwood

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

Topics: Lying, Believe, Compassion, Soul Winning, Bowels

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Topics: Life Is, Hours, Ends

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