Charles Spurgeon Quotes

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.