Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.