Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.

The great promise of Scripture is that every day is a day that's worth rejoicing in.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

I testify that this work in which we're engaged is the Lord's work. I've felt His sustaining influence.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy.

The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.