Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

Suffering saints are living seed.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I am one of the crucified dead.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.