Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
– Charles Spurgeon
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
– 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
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
– Charles Spurgeon
It's not the having, it's the getting.
– Charles Spurgeon
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
– Charles Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
– Charles Spurgeon
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
– Charles Spurgeon
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
– Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
– Charles Spurgeon
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
– Charles Spurgeon