C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus—humility, happiness, and holiness. ME266 Tell me who they are that sit oftenest under the banner of His love, and drink deepest draughts from the cup of communion, and I am sure they will be those who give most, who serve best, and who abide closest to the bleeding heart of their dear Lord. ME395 He who communes with God is always at home. TD61:4 Sin is usually at the bottom of all the hidings of the Lord’s face; let us ask the Lord to reveal the special form of it to us, that we may repent of it, overcome it, and henceforth forsake it. TD74:1 Communion is the mother of adoration. TD84:4 If we want to taste heaven’s blessed dainties while here below, let us walk in unbroken fellowship with him—so we shall get two heavens, a little heaven below, and a boundless heaven above, when our turn shall come to go home. 1136.576 The Lord may be very close to thee, dear child, when thou canst not see him, perhaps closer than ever he was when thou couldst see him. The presence of God is not to be measured by thy realization of it. 1793.425 We want one of the two—either to commune with God, or else to sigh and cry till we do so. 2053.630 A sitting silently at the feet of Jesus is of more worth than all the clatter of Martha’s dishes. 2072.119 Sinning will make you leave off communion with God, or else communion with God will make you leave off sinning: one of the two things must occur. 2135.166 All the infidels in the world, and all the devils in hell, will never make you doubt the truth of the Scriptures if you have once been face to face with Christ, and have spoken with your Master as a man speaketh with his friend. 2486.489 The active life will have little power in it if it is not accompanied by much of the contemplative and the prayerful. 2729.254 Thy communion may be transient, but thy corruption is perpetual. To be with Christ is but a thing of a moment with thee, but to be with thy corruption is a thing of every hour in the day. 3013.542 Brethren, we miss a thousand blessings because we are too busy to commune with God. We are here, there, and everywhere, except where we ought to be. 3219.496 Are you going to let go your God because you have lost his smile? Then I ask you, Did you base your faith upon his smile? for if you did, you mistook the true ground of faith. The ground of a believer’s confidence is not God’s smile, but God’s promise. 3507.173