282 Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God’s own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with him. They call him their God, and he calls them his people; he is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with him for their portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God’s Israel and Israel’s God.

The obedience which God’s children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster’s toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father’s way.

O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord’s lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.

There is no hope for you but in Christ. Rest assured that all the mercy of God is concentrated in the Cross. I hear some talk about the uncovenanted mercies of God – there is no such things. The mercies of God are all emptied out into the Covenant. God has put all His grace into the Person of Christ and you shall have none elsewhere. Trust, then, in Christ – so you shall be blessed, but you shall be blessed nowhere else.

Whether our Master shall say, “Go” or “Stay,” let us be equally well pleased as long as He indulges us with His presence.

Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus’ bosom.

All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not till then.

Those who feed upon the Word grow strong and peaceful and are by God’s grace hidden from the strife of tongues.

Power brings a man to his knee, but love alone wins his heart. Pharaoh said he would let Israel go, but he lied unto God; he submitted in word but not in deed. Tens of thousands, both in earth and hell, are rendering this constrained homage to the Almighty; they only submit because they cannot do otherwise; it is not their loyalty, but his power, which keeps them subjects of his boundless dominion.