Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

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

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

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.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.