Charles Spurgeon World Quotations

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.