Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.