Quotes From "Morning And Evening Based On The English Standard Version" By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Will you not this day make it your prayer? "Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man, Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins–when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour? Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our "songs of deliverance." Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy. Charles Haddon Spurgeon