Charles Spurgeon Quotes

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

I'm becoming more of a religious person actually as I get older, which I think is not an unusual phenomenon.

Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.