Charles Spurgeon Quotes

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power... No one really knows the full power of prayer. Of course, there is a relationship between prayer and action. Receptive prayer result in an inner receiving, which motivates to right action.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

Put God first in your life, and you will live joyfully!

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

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