Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

I'd rather die like Christ than live unholy.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.