Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

Secularism produces a bored soul

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.