To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. Charles Spurgeon More Quotes by Charles Spurgeon More Quotes From Charles Spurgeon The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. Charles Spurgeon hoursendslife-is The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire. Charles Spurgeon biblicalwinningmen Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering. Charles Spurgeon religiousfaithmen Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. Charles Spurgeon repentancetearsprayer When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace. Charles Spurgeon gracehearthoney When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ. Charles Spurgeon endsselfchrist The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society. Charles Spurgeon seajoyjesus The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. Charles Spurgeon caredivinesafe Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. Charles Spurgeon wisdomuseknowledge Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim. Charles Spurgeon deafgossipblind The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul. Charles Spurgeon soulgracedoe If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death. Charles Spurgeon easterbodymay Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. Charles Spurgeon habitchanceprayer Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up. Charles Spurgeon castingemptinesspreparation Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request. Charles Spurgeon prayeropportunitygiving If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. Charles Spurgeon desperationcatholicheaven When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts. Charles Spurgeon touchingmayneeds A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. Charles Spurgeon landblessingchristian If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. Charles Spurgeon religiouschristiangod Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. Charles Spurgeon immortalitywaiting-roomsdeath
