Charles Spurgeon Quotes

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

They err … who think that virtue consists of words .. good actions are the glory of virtue.

Live your life the right way, and the blessing will come.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.