“To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark - that is faith.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
“Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.”
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
“God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”
“If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”
“Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths.”
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.”
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.”
“Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”
“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
“Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.”
“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
“Without Christ there is no hope.”
“If Christ be anything, He must be everything.”
“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.”
“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.”
“He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.”
“Prayer can never be in excess.”
“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.”
“God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.”
“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”
“God helps those who cannot help themselves.”
“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.”
“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.””
“Great faith must have great trials.”
“Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.”
“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”
“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”
“The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.”
“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.”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.”
“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!”
“Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip.”
“Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.”
“The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.”
“Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.”
“Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.”
“When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.”
“Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”
“True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.”
“Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.”
“It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.”
“I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, “Don’t be a minister if you can help it,” because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.”
“When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.”
“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.”
“Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.”
“God is with us, and His power is around us.”
“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.”
“Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.”
“Of two evils, choose neither.”
“Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.”
“The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.”
“Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.”
“The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.”
“The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.”
“If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God’s word for it; what more is needed?”
“Suffering saints are living seed.”
“The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.”
“Fiery trials make golden Christians.”
“No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.”
“Jesus wept, but He never complained.”
“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”
“I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.”
“Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”
“It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.”
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
“To pray is to mount on eagle’s wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.”
“We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart.”
“Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.”
“The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.”
“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.”
“I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes.”
“I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
“I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.”
“A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.”
“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.”
“The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.”
“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.”
“Prayer is not a hard requirement – it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.”
“The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.”
“A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul...”
“The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.”
“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
“The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church.”
“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”
“Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.”
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
“Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.”
“This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.”
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