Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Inner StrengthResilienceSelf-DiscoveryTrue Character Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Influence of FalsehoodsSpeed of DeceptionTruth vs Lies A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Divine InterventionObediencePurificationSanctificationSpiritual Growth Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
FoolishnessKnowledgeWisdom Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
AssuranceFaithHopeSalvationTrust Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
AuthenticityChristian WitnessIntegrityReputation Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.
ChristDevotionFaithSpiritual Wealth Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.
Contrasting QualitiesFalse ValuesIdolatryMoral Judgment Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
AdorationFaithPrayerReverence In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
DevotionFaithHumilitySubmissionWorship To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.
BehaviorCharacterEthicsMoralityTransformation You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Divine TrustFaithGuidanceHumility I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
FaithPrayerReligionSalvation If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
AdorationChristLordship O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
FaithFutureGratitudeTrust Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
AdorationDeeper MeaningExpectationSubstanceWorship I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
CommitmentDiligenceFaithGuidanceTransformation One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
Sin I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
FaithJoyPeaceVictoryWisdom After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
ConsequenceInactionInitiative My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
JoyMotivationOptimism Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
FaithGodPraise You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Comfort from FaithDivine SupportFaith in AdversitySavior S Love How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
DeterminationFaithHopePerseverancePurpose The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
AwakeningFaithJoyPeaceTruth The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
DespisedGodHumanitySuffering There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!