Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Charles Spurgeon Quotes
GodPraiseFaith 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.
FaithTrustFutureGratitude 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.
ChristFaithSpiritual WealthDevotion 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.
TruthFaithAwakeningJoyPeace 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.
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.
HumanityGodDespisedSuffering 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!
GuidanceFaithDiligenceTransformationCommitment 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.
Self-DiscoveryResilienceInner StrengthTrue Character Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
PrayerFaithAdorationReverence 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?
AuthenticityIntegrityChristian WitnessReputation 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.
Truth vs LiesSpeed of DeceptionInfluence of Falsehoods A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
SpiritualityDivine ActionTrustFaithHuman Reliance In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
GuidanceFaithHumilityDivine Trust 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.
FaithPeaceWisdomJoyVictory 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.
InitiativeInactionConsequence 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.
PraiseGratitudeDevotionBlessing All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
SanctificationDivine InterventionObediencePurificationSpiritual 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.
PerseveranceFaithDeterminationPurposeHope 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.
Savior's LoveDivine SupportFaith in AdversityComfort from Faith 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!
WorshipAdorationSubstanceExpectationDeeper Meaning 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.
MoralityEthicsBehaviorTransformationCharacter 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.
FaithSalvationTrustAssuranceHope Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
AdorationLordshipChrist O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
SubmissionDevotionWorshipFaithHumility 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.
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!
PrayerFaithReligionSalvation 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.
Contrasting QualitiesIdolatryMoral JudgmentFalse Values 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.
WisdomKnowledgeFoolishness 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.
Choice We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
GraceFaithRedemptionSeeking God Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
Faith As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
FaithDevotionSpiritual JourneyEvangelism I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
GracePrayerForgivenessTrust If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
JoyForgivenessReligious FaithRedemption Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
StrengthAnxietyPerseveranceResilienceMindfulness Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
WitnessingCompassionSpiritual Awakening Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.
Union with ChristChurch CommunionSpiritual Connection We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.
SpiritualityUnity Of PurposeDivine ConnectionEmotional AlignmentCollaborative Partnership We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
PovertyWealthInauthenticityDeceptionInner Conflict No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
MindfulnessContentmentPresent MomentTrustPatience A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.
GratitudeJoyFaithObedienceSubmission I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
UsefulnessWisdomOpportunityInfluence To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
HealingPeaceConscienceFaith Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.