Charles Spurgeon Quotes

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Satan has an agenda.

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The devil's name is dullness.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians….The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

Among the lying schemes of the devil is deluding the person who commits suicide into thinking that death will relieve him from his troubles.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.

The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.