Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Waiting

• Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Waiting, Ifs

• Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Waiting, Grace

• We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.81, Whitaker House

• Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sleep, Blessing, Waiting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Evening by Evening; Or, Readings at Eventide for the Family Or the Closet”, p.215

• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Waiting Rooms, Immortality

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

• The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Waiting, Lord

• If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perfect, Waiting, Heaven

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Sermons: 10th series”

• If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivation, Flower, Inspiration

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Diana L. Matisko (1984). “Evening by Evening”, Whitaker Distribution

• We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Order, Waiting, World

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

• The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5367, Bible Study Steps

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