Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Joy

• The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Inspiration, Giving

  Charles, Spurgeon H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Prayer, Children

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

• I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Joy

• Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friendship, Relationship, Joy

• Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Jesus, Ocean

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.158, Discovery House

• Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Giving, Joy

• A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  True Friend, Ambition, Character

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Grieving, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 52: Sermons 2968-3019”, p.237, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sea, Joy

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.671, Discovery House

• When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Heart, Joy

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1446, New Leaf Publishing Group

• Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Honor, Pathways

• A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Flower, Light

• A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Joy, Baptists

• There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Joy, Sorrow

• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Suffering, Sorrow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.533

• Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, World, Ends

• Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: An Autobiography”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Joy, Excess

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.192, Zondervan

• Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Punishment, Joy, Endless

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.411, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Heaven, Sorrow

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.117, Barbour Publishing

• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Fall

• Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Rewards, Doe

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.748, Discovery House

• Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Joy

• It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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