Quotes from revival and the 19th century
Christian quotes from revival and the 19th century — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray before you have prayed!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is better to be a patient of Christ than a doctor of theology.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, do not forget the duty to love yourself.
Søren Kierkegaard
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
John Charles Ryle
Do you see the moon standing there? It's only half visible, and yet it's round and lovely! So it is with many things that we lightly laugh about, because our eyes cannot see them.
Matthias Claudius
My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior!
John Newton
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Whatever tomorrow may bring, our God is a God of tomorrow too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am called to do something or to be something for which no one else is called. I have a place in God's plan on God's earth that no one else has. Whether I am rich or poor, despised or esteemed by others, God knows me and calls me by my name.
John Henry Newman
We are more lost than we want to admit, and we are more deeply redeemed than we dare to hope.
Søren Kierkegaard
Well, if I am no saint, then I am a sinner, and Jesus came into the world to save sinners. So I will go to Christ and look to him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Death in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains… Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man’s pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can’t bite; the shadow of a sword can’t kill.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be in the world beyond; but still I am not what I once was, and by the grace of God I am what I am.
John Newton
And Satan trembles when he sees, the weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If God would have painted a yellow stripe on the backs of the elect I would go around lifting shirts. But since He didn’t I must preach “whosoever will” and when “whatsoever” believes I know that he is one of the elect.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our old man is crucified, but he is long at dying.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body… Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no need for two to care, for God to care and the creature too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.
Horatius Bonar
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
D.L. Moody
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and disordered minds. They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No pillow so soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured interest in Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
People quoted here
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Charles Ryle, Matthias Claudius, John Newton, Robert Murray McCheyne, John Henry Newman, William Cowper, Henry Ward Beecher, Horatius Bonar, D.L. Moody
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The Early Church, The Middle Ages, Reformation & Baroque, The 20th Century, Today
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