Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The Bishop of London sympathizes with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is more often earnest than truth.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Lord, enable us to search our hearts and humble ourselves before Thee. Oh, for a closer walk with God, more faith, more sincerity, more earnestness, and more love. I must study more the Word of God. 'If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' The Master said so, and His words are true.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.