Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

I don't believe. I know.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.