C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Love to God will help a man to persevere in service when otherwise he would have given up his work. AM195 Nothing gives Christ greater delight than the love of His people. GS200 Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally in human soil, it must be watered from above. Love to Jesus is a flower of a delicate nature, and if it received no nourishment but that which could be drawn from the rock of our hearts it would soon wither. ME326 Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did He choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. ME512 You know the Master might have said to Peter, had he appealed to his works, “Yes, thou mayest preach, and yet not love me; thou mayest pray, after a fashion, and yet not love me; thou mayest do all these works, and yet have no love to me. I did not ask thee what are the evidences of thy love, I asked thee the fact of it.” 117.85 I could not help saying once, I remember, that I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. 535.588 I once knew a good woman who was the subject of many doubts, and when I got to the bottom of her doubt, it was this: she knew she loved Christ, but she was afraid he did not love her. “Oh!” I said, “that is a doubt that will never trouble me; never, by any possibility, because I am sure of this, that the heart is so corrupt, naturally, that love to God never did get there without God’s putting it there.” You may rest quite certain, that if you love God, it is a fruit, and not a root. 762.413 You cannot love a thing without becoming something like it, in proportion to the force of love; and just in proportion as you love Jesus you must get like him. 1280.118 But if you feel that everything that has to do with God you love—his work, his service, his people, his day, his book—and that you do all that in you lies to spread his kingdom, both by prayer, by word of mouth, by your liberality, and by your example; if you do love you can easily see it, I think, and there are many ways by which you can test yourself. 1782.299 Ah! if that question, “If ye love me,” needed to be raised in the sacred college of the twelve, much more must it be allowed to sift our churches, and to test ourselves. 1932.654 Perhaps, they who love the Master best are the very people who will be the most likely to have such a high opinion of the love which he deserves, that they will often chide themselves that they do not love him at all, when they see how little their love is compared with that perfection of affection which he deserves. 2478.386 Here is the strength of the saints, here is the glory which God getteth out of true believers,—that they cannot and will not be soured against their God. 2557.86 I cannot bear it—that we should love Jesus little. It seems to me horrible. Not to have your heart all on fire for Christ—this is execrable! Let us love him to the utmost. Let us ask him to give us larger hearts, and to fire them with the flame that is his own, that we may love him to the utmost possibilities of affection. 3301.221