Quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
- Charles Spurgeon
Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.
- Charles Spurgeon
Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
- Charles Spurgeon
The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.
- Charles Spurgeon
Of two evils, choose neither.
- Charles Spurgeon
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.
- Charles Spurgeon
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.
- Charles Spurgeon
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
- Charles Spurgeon
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
- Charles Spurgeon
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.
- Charles Spurgeon
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
- Charles Spurgeon
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
- Charles Spurgeon