Back in October 2021 and March 2022, I shared a series of quotes by the great Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon. As I shared in my October 2021 devotion: “For a man, who suffered from so much depression, it is absolutely awe-inspiring that he is so often quoted for his uplifting words of hope and wisdom.” Please take time to meditate on each quote below – I guarantee you will be blessed.1
“As for His failing you, never dream of it — hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.”
“There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.”
“Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!”
“If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.”
“The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.”
“There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.”
“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.”
“He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.”
“This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.”
“Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?”
“Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.”
“We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.”
“Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.”
“When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.”
“O man, I beseech you do not treat God’s promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.”
“Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.”
“The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.”
“We are all damaged goods in recovery.”
“You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.”
“Thankfulness makes much of little.”
“Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.”
“We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.”
“If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?”
“Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
“Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.”
“The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.”
“Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.”
“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”
“True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.”
1 All of the Spurgeon quotations listed in this devotion are from the following website:
TOP 25 CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTES ON PRAYER & JESUS | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)