Inspirational Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

“What position is nobler than that of a spiritual father who claims no authority and yet is universally esteemed, whose word is given only as tender advice, but is allowed to operate with the force of law?”

“If we add to our Churches by becoming worldly, by taking in persons who have never been born again; if we add to our Churches by accommodating the life of the Christian to the life of the worldling, our increase is worth nothing at all; it is a loss rather than a gain! If we add to our Churches by excitement, by making appeals to the passions rather than by explaining the truth of God to the understanding. If we add to our churches otherwise than by the power of the Spirit of God making men new creatures in Christ Jesus, the increase is of no worth whatever! ”–1892, Sermon 2265 “What”

“We often pray for Christians in adversity, and it is right that we should do so; but it is even more necessary to pray for Christians in prosperity, for they run the risk of gradually becoming soft, like Hannibal’s soldiers destroyed by Capuan holidays,[31] who lost their valor in their luxury. Many a man who was an out-and-out Christian when he was lower down in life has, when prosperous, become much too great a gentleman to associate with those who were his honored Brothers and Sisters before.”–1891, Sermon 2217 “That”

“God has decreed troubles for the church’s good. The troubles of God’s church is like the angel’s troubling the water, which made way for healing his people. John 5: 4. He has decreed troubles in the church. ‘His fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.’ Isa 31: 9. The wheels in a watch move cross one to another, but they all carry on the motion of the watch; so the wheels of Providence often move cross to our desires, but still they carry on God’s unchangeable decree.”

“And he is an ever-present Comforter. You will never have to send for him. Your God is always near you. When you are in distress and need comfort, “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” God is “a very present help in trouble.”

“When faith begins in the soul, it is simply looking to Jesus, and perhaps even then there are so many clouds of doubts and so much difficulty in seeing, that it needs the light of the Spirit to shine on the cross before it can even see it. After faith has grown a little, it goes from looking to Christ to coming to Christ. The person who stood at a distance and looked to the cross eventually gains enough courage and confidence to run up to the cross. Some, however, do not run, but need to be pulled before they can even crawl to the cross. And even after they stand up they can only limp as they come closer to Christ the Savior. At that point, faith goes a little farther until it can grab hold of Christ; it begins to see more of his excellent qualities and devotes itself to him little by little. Faith becomes more and more convinced that he is a real Christ and a real Savior, and right for itself. And when faith has come that far, it goes further and leans on Christ. Faith leans on its Beloved and casts all its anxieties, sorrows, and griefs on that blessed shoulder, and allows all its sins to be swallowed up in the great red sea of the Savior’s blood, Faith can go even further. Having seen Christ and run toward him, and grabbed hold of him, and leaned on him, faith humbly, but courageously lays claim to all that Christ is and all the he has done. Faith trusts in these alone and claims all of this to itself. Faith rises to full assurance. Nothing this side of heaven brings more joy than this.”

“But, oh! dear Saviour, we come to Thee, and we remember what our state is, and the condition we are in encourages us to come to Thee now as beggars, as dependents upon Thy heavenly charity. Thou art a Saviour, and as such Thou art on the outlook for those that need saving, and here we are, here we come. We are the men and women Thou art looking for, needing a Saviour. Great Physician, we bring Thee our wounds and bruises and putrifying sores, and the more diseased we are and the more conscious we are today of the depravity of our nature, of the deep-seated corruption of our hearts, the more we feel that we are the sort of beings that Thou art seeking for, for the whole have no need of a physician but they that are sick. Glorious Benefactor, we can meet Thee on good terms, for we are full of poverty, we are just as empty as we can be. We could not be more abjectly dependent than we are. Since Thou wouldest display Thy mercy here is our sin; since Thou wouldest show Thy strength here is our weakness; since Thou wouldest manifest Thy loving kindness here are our needs; since Thou wouldest glorify Thy grace here are we, such persons as can never have a shadow of a hope except through Thy grace, for we are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, and if Thou do not magnify Thy grace in us we must perish for ever.”

“I am bold to say that, if a man be destitute of the grace of God, his works are only works of slavery; he feels forced to do them.”

“Ever since that early sickening, I have hated debt as Luther hated the Pope.”

“At the very outset of the Christian life these two things should be very distinct with you --sin which has ruined you, and Christ who has saved you.”

“The moment a sinner trusts Jesus—he is fully forgiven.”

“Our life derives all its strength from God; and if He deigns to make us strong, we cannot be weakened by all the machinations of the adversary.”

“In fact, children are capable of understanding some things in early life, which we hardly understand afterwards. Children have eminently a simplicity of faith, and simplicity of faith is akin to the highest knowledge;”

“You and I do not love Christ much, nor believe much in his love—I mean the most of us. We are a sickly, unworthy, degenerate generation. We let the world alone, the world lets us alone. We conform a great deal to worldly customs, and the world is not annoyed by us. We do not dog the world’s heels, perpetually declaring the truth as we ought to do, and therefore the world is not impatient with us—it thinks us a very good sort of people, a little whimsied, crazed about the head perhaps, but still very bearable and well behaved—and so we do not meet with half the enemies which they did of old, because we are not half such true Christians, nay, not one-tenth such saints as they.”

“My soul, get Calvary’s blood-red rose into thy hand by faith, by love wear it, by communion preserve it, by daily watchfulness make it thine all in all, and thou shalt be blessed beyond all bliss, happy beyond a dream.”

“Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord.”

“invisible God, who will most surely do as he hath said. If after clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with the creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes home mightily to us:”

“Our Lord in His infinite wisdom and superabundant love sets such a high value upon His people’s faith that He will not protect them from those trials by which faith is strengthened.”

“All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word—are defilements and pollutions.”

“Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.”