God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity QUOTES

1 " As the rainbow is our assurance that the world shall never be destroyed by a flood, so is Jesus our assurance that the floods of human sin shall never drown the faithful kindness of the Lord. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

2 " Perhaps, moreover, we have not yet displayed sufficient submission to the divine will. Patience has not yet had her perfect work. The weaning process is not accomplished: we are still hankering after the comforts which the Lord intends us forever to outgrow. Abraham made a great feast when his son Isaac was weaned; and, peradventure, our heavenly Father will do the same with us. Lie down, proud heart! Quit thine idols; forsake thy fond doting’s; and the promised peace will come unto thee. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

3 " Happy is he who believes the promise and feels assured of its fulfillment to himself in due time, leaving all else in the hands of infinite wisdom and love. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

4 " This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he has sent (John 6:29). This is to say that the most divinely approved work possible is to believe in the Messiah. To trust in the Lord Jesus is the climax of virtue. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

5 " If people loved good works as much as they pretend to, they would love the faith which produces them. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

6 " The chosen of the Lord are led to relinquish the proud way of self and merit: they take to the road of faith, and so find rest unto their souls. To believe the word of God, and to trust in him whom God has sent to be our Saviour may seem a small thing; but indeed it is not so: it is the sign of election, the token of regeneration, the mark of coming glory. So to believe that God is true as to rest one’s eternal interests upon his promise, bespeaks a heart reconciled to God, a spirit in which the germ of perfect holiness is present. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

7 " When Christ died on the cross, our hopes began. When He arose, they were confirmed. When He ascended on high, they began to be fulfilled. When He comes a second time, they will be realized. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

8 " The Lord our God, who instructs us to believe, also enables us to believe. All that we do that is acceptable to God is because the Lord works it in us; "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

9 " What is prayer but the promise pleaded? A promise is, so to speak, the raw material of prayer. Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise. The promise is the power of prayer. We go to God, and we say to him, “Do as thou hast said. O Lord, here is thy word; we beseech thee fulfil it. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

10 " Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

11 " Today, the fiercest enemies of the truth of God are the aliens in our communion. These are they who make believers in sound evangelical teaching look like strangers in the Churches which were founded on the basis of scriptural doctrine. They make us foreigners in our own land. They are lenient to all manner of heresy; but the believer in the doctrines of grace they sneer at as old-fashioned and bigoted—a belated mortal who ought studiously to seek out a grave and bury himself. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

12 " To-day I feel so joyful that I could dance to the tune of Miriam’s timbrel; but perhaps when I wake to-morrow morning I shall only be able to sing in harmony with Jeremiah’s lamentations. Has my salvation changed according to these feelings? Then it must have had a very movable foundation. Feelings are more fickle than the winds, more unsubstantial than bubbles: are these to be the gauge of the divine fidelity? States of mind more or less depend upon the condition of the liver or the stomach; are we to judge the Lord by these? Certainly not. The state of the barometer may send our feelings up or down: can there be much dependence upon things so changeable? "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

13 " The self-religionist and the believer in the promise may be members of the same church for years, but they are not agreed and cannot be happy together, for their principles are essentially opposed. As the believer grows in grace and enters upon his spiritual manhood, he will be more and more disagreeable to the religionist and the legalist, and ultimately the two have no fellowship with one another. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

14 " There are times when, if I sit alone and think of the grace of God to me, the most undeserving of all his creatures, I am ready to laugh and cry at the same time for joy that ever the Lord should have looked in love and favor upon me. Yes, and every child of God must have felt the working of that Isaac nature within his soul, filling his mouth with laughter, because the Lord hath done great things for him. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

15 " The secret hope of a man is a truer test of his condition before God than the acts of any one day, or even the public devotions of a year. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

16 " The promises of grace flow from the boundless love of God, and from that alone. They could not have proceeded from any other source. No single person in all of mankind has any natural right to promises of blessing, nor can the whole world together deserve them. God has made promises to us of His own free will and good pleasure from no other motive but the love that lies within Himself. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

17 " When we know God we do not cease to wonder, but we begin to be at home with wonders. Believe the promise of God’s grace, and believing, you shall live in a new world which shall be always wonder-land to you. It is a happy thing to have such faith in God as to expect as certain that which to mere human judgment is most unlikely. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

18 " Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart. (Psalm 26:2) "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

19 " Faith is not to be imitated by a quack, nor simulated by a hypocrite; but where it is real, and can grasp a divine promise with firm grip, it is a great wonder-worker. How I wish that my reader would so believe in God as to lean upon him in all the concerns of this life! This would lead him into a new world, and bring to him such confirmatory evidence as to the truth of our holy faith that he would laugh skeptics to scorn. Child-like faith in God provides sincere hearts with a practical prudence, which I am inclined to call—sanctified common-sense. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity

20 " We must come under the influence of the promise and live upon the promise. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , God's Promises (Annotated): Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity