Charles Spurgeon Quotes

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I never stopped believing in myself. I had faith in my god.

I have a lot of faith in God. Without him, I wouldn't be anything.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.