Charles Spurgeon's Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

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

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

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

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

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

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.

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

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

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

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.