Pithy gems from Charles Spurgeon. There is enough dust on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers. The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. An unholy church, it is useless to the world and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell's laughter and heaven's abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

Does the world satisfy you? Then you have your reward and portion in this life. Make much of it, for you shall know no other happiness. The best of our good works are but a painted pageantry for your soul to go to hell in. You may as surely go down to the bottomless pit by the religious road, as by the way of the wicked. Nine times out of ten, spiritual declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

Some of you will not like it to be said, but I believe that it is anti-Christian to live with the objective of accumulating wealth. If the wooings of Christ's wounds cannot make you love Christ, do you think the flames of hell will? I feel that, if I could live a thousand lives, I would like to live them all for Christ. Even then, I would feel that they were all too little a return for His great love to me.

It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom. What sin is worth being eternally damned for? Let us never think that we have learned a doctrine until we have seen its fruit in our lives. A large part of the professing church is nothing better than the world, wrongfully named with Christ's name. Anything that makes us pray is a blessing. The most damning thing in the world is self-righteousness.

Many in the church are toiling like ants to gain this world's dross, but are as idle as a butterfly in regard to divine things. There is no shelter from an angry God but in the pierced hand of his dear Son. My longing is that the churches may be more holy. I grieve to see so much conformity to the world among Christians. How many Christians follow the fashions of this wicked world? Time is flying. Men are dying. Hell is filling.

I suppose if any man among us could see his own heart as it really is, he would be driven mad. The poet was right when he said, God saves all beings but himself from that hideous sight, a human heart. If you profess to know Christ, have nothing to do with a sinful world. Shake off the viper into the fire, for it will poison you and destroy you. If you want to know what heaven is, know what Christ is. The way to spell heaven is with those five letters that make up the word J-E-S-U-S.

He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting His own redeemed children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made, or the only saint He ever loved. Look to the cross and hate your sin, for sin nailed your well-beloved to the accursed tree. The sympathy of Jesus is the next most precious thing to his sin-atoning sacrifice.

to be almost saved is to be altogether lost. There are many in hell who once were almost saved, but who are now altogether damned. Think of that, you who are not far from the kingdom. It is being in the kingdom that saves the soul, not being near the kingdom. The world does not read the Bible. The world reads Christians. A golden coffin will be a poor compensation for a damned soul. If you have lived like the wicked, then you will die like the wicked and be damned like the wicked.

There is as much love in the blows of God's hand as in the kisses of His mouth. As kings hold a model globe in their hands, so does the Lord in very deed hold the earth. Whatever the secondary agent may be, the direct hand of the Lord is in every earthly calamity. The floods of God's mercy ever rise above the mountains of our sins. There is no cordial of comfort like that which is poured from the bottle of Scripture.

Pride lies at the root of all sin. If people were not arrogant, they would not be disobedient. Justified people always long to be sanctified. Hell itself is but sin fully developed. The same lips which spoke us into existence have spoken the laws by which we are to govern our existence. Those who fear God need not fear anything else. Our desires and delights are a better test of our character than anything else. The further a soul advances in grace, the more spiritual and divine are its longings.