C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

We are all like trees marked for the axe, and the fall of one should remind us that for every one, whether great as the cedar, or humble as the fir, the appointed hour is stealing on apace. ME541 May we regard death as the most weighty of all events, and be sobered by its approach. ME541 We talk of death too lightly. It is solemn work to the best of men. It would be no child’s play to an apostle to die. WC137 Now, I believe the sight of a funeral is a very healthful thing for the soul. 200.281 When you are in good health any form of religion may satisfy, but a dying soul wants more than sand to rest upon. You will want the Rock of Ages. Then let me assure you, that in light of the grave, all confidence, except confidence in the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, is a clear delusion. 667.724 The young may die: the old must. 787.718 Men have usually shown us what lies at the bottom of their heart when they have come to die. 989.253 Now, recollect there is no pain in death, the pain is in life: when a man dies there is an end of life’s pain: death is the pain killer, not the pain maker. 1110.262 I never yet heard regrets from dying men that they had done too much for Christ, or lived too earnestly for him, or won too many souls, or given too much of their substance to the cause of God: but the regrets all lie the other way, God save us from them for his mercy’s sake. 1296.310 And now last of all, and the word “last” sounds fitly in this case, death is to be destroyed last. Because he came in last he must go out last. Death was not the first of our foes: first came the devil, then sin, then death. Death is not the worst of enemies; death is an enemy, but he is much to be preferred to our other adversaries. It were better to die a thousand times than to sin. To be tried by death is nothing compared with being tempted by the devil. 1329.706 Archbishop Leighton one morning was asked by a friend, “Have you heard a sermon?” He said, “No, but I met a sermon, for I met a dead man carried out to be buried.” 1373.510 Soon you may lie on a sick bed gazing into eternity, and then your estimate of most things will undergo a great change. I know what that solemn outlook means, for I have been called several times to lie in spirit upon the brink of eternity, and I can assure you it is no child’s play. 1930.633 Where death finds you eternity will leave you. 1946.74 Some look with intense delight to the prospect of the Saviour’s coming, as a means of escape from death. I confess I have but slender sympathy with them. If I might have my choice, I would prefer, of the two, to die. Let it be as the Lord wills; but there is a point of fellowship with Christ in death which they will miss who shall not sleep; and it seems to me to have some sweetness in it to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, even though he descend into the sepulchre. 2017.199 The Lord will give dying grace in dying moments. 2039.461 Some of us know what it is to lie for days and weeks, looking into eternity, until our eyes have been able to gaze steadily on death and all the future, and we have grown so used to the prospect, and so peaceful in reference to it, that we have almost been sorry to come back again to life and its trials and sins. 2164.511 Oh, if we could not die, it would be indeed horrible! Who wants to be chained to this poor life for a century or longer? 2659.42 “But we must live.” I am not sure of that; I am sure of another thing, you must die. Oh, that you would think rather of dying than of living! 2766.77 There are some who are comforted much by the belief that Christ will come, and they shall not die. I do not profess to be among the number. I would as soon die as not, and rather, I think, if I might have my choice, for herein would be a greater conformity to the sufferings of Christ, in actually passing through the grave and rising again, than will fall to the lot of those who do not die. 3493.7