I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
If the Lord is your friend, who is he that can harm you? All is well.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixed upright.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Better be one day with God than a thousand years without him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this: that I may die to self, and live wholly to him.
– Charles H. Spurgeon –
You can draw near to God even though you cannot say a word. A prayer may be crystallised in a tear. A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.
– Charles Spurgeon –