Charles Spurgeon Quotes

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.