C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

An old Scotchman was asked whether he expected to get to heaven. “Why, man, I live there,” was his quaint reply. Let us all live in those spiritual things which are the essential features of heaven. Often go there, before you go to stay there. It was said of an old Puritan, that heaven was in him before he was in heaven. That is necessary for all of us; we must have heaven in us before we get into heaven. If we do not get to heaven before we die, we shall never get there afterwards. BA124 If you were in heaven without a new heart and a right spirit, you would be glad enough to get out of it; for heaven, unless a man is heavenly himself, would be worse than hell. 110.30 Ah, dear hearer! heaven is a prepared place for prepared people. If you do not learn heaven’s language on earth you cannot learn it in the world to come. 746.224 O brethren, we do not want merely to go to heaven, but we desire to enjoy a heaven on the road to heaven. 1152.34 As you come nearer heaven ought you not to be more heavenly? 1179.356 They need no angels to instruct them in the manners and customs of the upper world, for even while they sojourned on earth their conversation was in heaven. They are not waiting till they have learned the song, but they know it already, for grace is the rehearsal of glory. 1316.542 Above all, you must get heaven into your own heart, for you will never have your heart in heaven till you have heaven in your heart. 2292.45 Whatever the saints are in heaven, they began to be on earth. There is, no doubt, a perfection of character in the world to come; but the character must be formed here. In the next world there will be no real change; where the tree falls, there it will lie; he that is filthy will be filthy still, he that is holy will be holy still. 2324.421 “Ah,” says one, “I expect to have my happiness in another world.” So do I, but I hope to have some here too. “One heaven will be enough for me,” says one. But why not have heaven here and heaven hereafter too? 3189.140 You have a part of heaven—“a young heaven,” as Dr. Watts somewhere calls it, within you. 3538.549