Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

I never called myself into ministry. God called me when I was 18 years old to preach the Gospel so I've preached the Gospel.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

I never realized what a great privilege it is to be able to use the voice for Christ until I was deprived of it.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.