Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A mother can translate baby-talk: she comprehends incomprehensible noises. Even so doth our Father in heaven know all about our poor baby talk, for… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
![“Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” quote by Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af7/charles-spurgeon-82_despondency_ready-to-halt-poor-fearing-and-thou-mrs_647374.jpg)
