Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.

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.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.