Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

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

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.