C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

To suppose that temporal things are too little for our condescending God, is to forget that he observes the flight of sparrows, and counts the hairs of his people’s heads. Besides, everything is so little to him, that, if he does not care for the little, he cares for nothing. AP102 With God there are no contingencies. The mighty charioteer of Providence has gathered up all the reins of all the horses, and He guides them all according to His infallible wisdom. There is a foreknowledge and predestination which concerneth all things, from the motion of a grain of dust on the threshing-floor to that of the flaming comet which blazes athwart the sky. Nothing can happen but what God ordains; and therefore, why should we fear? BA39 There is as much providence in the creeping of an aphis upon a rose leaf as in the marching of an army to ravage a continent. GS94 Why am I so curious to know the reason of my Lord’s providences, the motive of His actions, the design of His visitations? Shall I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold the universe in my palm? yet these are as a drop of a bucket compared with the Lord my God. Let me not strive to understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess by affection, and let that suffice me. ME499 Believer, if your inheritance be a lowly one you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. ME633 You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs out of the ground. TN85 It is always providence when it is a good thing. But why is it not a providence when it does not happen to be just as we please? Surely it is so; for if the one thing be ordered by God, so is the other. WC70 Blessed is the man who seeth God in trifles! It is there that it is the hardest to see him; but he who believes that God is there, may go from the little providence up to the God of providence. 187.180 To gather up all in one, the calamities of earthquake, the devastations of storm, the extirpations of war, and all the terrible catastrophes of plague, have only been co-workers with God—slaves compelled to tug the galley of the divine purpose across the sea of time. 406.467 Why, look, sirs; suppose for a moment there were some great performance going on, and you should step in in the middle of it and see one actor upon the stage for a moment, and you should say, “Yes, I understand it,” what a simpleton you would be! Do you not know that the great transactions of providence began near six thousand years ago? and you have only stepped into this world for thirty or forty years, and seen one actor on the stage, and you say you understand it. 408.483 The insatiable archer is not permitted to shoot his bolts at random—every arrow that flies bears this inscription, “I have a message from God for thee.” 705.451 He who observes providence shall never want a providence to observe, and he who watches providence with the view of discovering occasions for usefulness, will find himself surrounded with golden opportunities for soul-winning. 785.688 To take the sacred picture of providence, and, with our eye-glass, look at the canvass inch by inch, is practically to see nothing; but to view the work of the Divine Artist as a whole, with all its lights and shades, and all the fair proportions which manifest the matchless skill—this is to see indeed. The fault of us all is this: that we judge Providence by the moment, instead of regarding it in its true magnitude, stretched upon the framework of that eternal love which knows neither beginning nor end. 879.378 The Lord cannot be unkind to me in providence; for it is impossible that he can forsake those whose names are graven upon the palms of his hands. 1110.261 He causes the wheel of providence to revolve in such a manner as to help his cause; he abridges the power of tyrants, overrules the scourge of war, establishes liberty in nations, opens the mysteries of continents long unknown, breaks down systems of error, and guides the current of human thought. He works by a thousand means, preparing the way of the Lord. 1388.686 If we turn to Providence, the history of nations, the history of the church, what centuries of wonders pass before us! It is said that wise men wonder only once, and that is always; fools never wonder, because they are fools. 1981.493 He that looks for a providence will not be long without seeing one. 2062.3 When you have looked at creation, remember providence, which is a prolongation of the creative act. The power which made all things upholds them. 2159.453 The very thing we regret most in providence will probably be that in which we shall rejoice most in eternity. 2682.319 A good man once went to a certain place to meet his son. Both his son and himself had ridden from some distance. When the son arrived, he exclaimed, “Oh father! I had such a providence on the road.” “Why, what was that?” “My horse stumbled six times, and yet I was not thrown.” “Dear me!” said his father, “But I have had a providence too.” “And what was that?” “Why, my horse never stumbled at all, and that is just as much a providence as if the horse had stumbled six times, and I had not been thrown.” 3060.488 Hence it is most important for us to learn that the smallest trifles are as much arranged by the God of providence as the most startling events. He who counts the stars also has numbered the hairs of our heads. 3075.25 He who believes in God must believe this truth. There is no standing point between this and atheism. There is no half way between an almighty God who worketh all things according to the good pleasure of his own will and no god at all. A god who cannot do as he pleases,—a god whose will is frustrated, is not a God, and cannot be a God; I could not believe in such a god as that. 3114.502