Charles Spurgeon Quotes

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.