Spurgeon Morning by Morning Quotes: 40 Lines with Their Dates
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C. H. Spurgeon wrote Morning by Morning as a page a day, and nearly every page has a sentence you want to keep. These quotes are taken word for word from the 1865 text in TheWay Library. Each one is marked with the date of its reading, so you can find it again and read the whole page. You can read Morning by Morning free, or start with our guide to how Morning by Morning is arranged and how to use it.
Prayer
Spurgeon set "Continue in prayer" as the motto for the year on January 2, and he comes back to prayer again and again.
If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
Morning by Morning, January 2
We ought then to be doubly prayerful, doubly earnest, wrestling more at the throne than we have been wont to do.
Morning by Morning, January 30
If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained.
Morning by Morning, July 3
No believer who is much in the closet will have need to cry, "My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me."
Morning by Morning, October 18
The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace.
Morning by Morning, October 18
There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, "I will arise and go unto my Father."
Morning by Morning, October 29
Faith
The March readings hold some of his strongest words on faith, with nods to The Pilgrim's Progress along the way.
If you would find the men who serve God the best, you must look for the men of the most faith.
Morning by Morning, March 7
Little faith will save a man, but little faith cannot do great things for God.
Morning by Morning, March 7
If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith.
Morning by Morning, March 19
Faith links me with divinity. Faith clothes me with the power of God.
Morning by Morning, March 19
Take care that thy faith is of the right kind — that it is not a mere belief of doctrine, but a simple faith, depending on Christ, and on Christ alone.
Morning by Morning, July 26
Care, trouble and trial
Christian! do not dishonor your religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord.
Morning by Morning, January 6
If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust Him for your soul, and not for your body?
Morning by Morning, January 6
The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy.
Morning by Morning, January 6
When the black clouds gather most, the light is the more brightly revealed to us.
Morning by Morning, February 12
There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials.
Morning by Morning, February 18
God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians.
Morning by Morning, February 18
Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified to the drawing forth of the perfume of our graces.
Morning by Morning, March 1
Although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages.
Morning by Morning, July 2
Christ and the cross
THE time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross.
Morning by Morning, February 1
In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement.
Morning by Morning, February 2
THE love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension.
Morning by Morning, March 28
The blood of Jesus is the life of all vital godliness.
Morning by Morning, April 17
The only weapon to fight sin with is the spear which pierced the side of Jesus.
Morning by Morning, April 23
How did I get salvation? I came to Jesus just as I was, and I trusted him to save me.
Morning by Morning, April 23
THE cry of the Christian religion is the gentle word, "Come."
Morning by Morning, December 16
The law repels; the gospel attracts.
Morning by Morning, December 16
Living like Christ
On February 11 Spurgeon takes Acts 4:13, "they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus," and makes it a call to likeness.
You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written; but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions of His people.
Morning by Morning, February 11
Good for evil, recollect, is godlike.
Morning by Morning, February 11
Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart.
Morning by Morning, May 30
Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature's garden.
Morning by Morning, October 13
Serving others
Our efforts to be useful bring out our powers for usefulness.
Morning by Morning, August 21
We went to teach the Scriptures; we came away blushing that we knew so little of them.
Morning by Morning, August 21
If we cannot get sinners where Jesus is by ordinary methods, we must use extraordinary ones.
Morning by Morning, September 7
Joy, God and heaven
Learn the divine skill of making God all things to thee.
Morning by Morning, April 27
HE who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
Morning by Morning, September 27
All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within.
Morning by Morning, June 28
Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire.
Morning by Morning, July 2
There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects, in heaven.
Morning by Morning, August 23
Oh, how sweet the prospect of the time when we shall not behold Him at a distance, but see Him face to face!
Morning by Morning, December 10
How to use these quotes
A quote is a door into a reading, not a substitute for it. Spurgeon's sentences land hardest when you've just read the verse he is working from and the paragraph that builds up to the line. So pick one quote, open its date in the Morning by Morning reader, and read the whole page. For example, February 18 holds the lines on trials, and October 13 the ones on repentance.
The book was printed from an old scan and is still being proofread, so the reader may show a misread letter here and there. Every quote on this page was checked against the text and chosen from clean passages.
More Spurgeon
To learn what the book is and how its year is laid out, see Morning by Morning: what it is and how to use it. For Spurgeon's own story, read Who was Charles Spurgeon?, and for more of his short, sharp sentences, see the All of Grace quotes. Pastors and teachers will want his counsel to young preachers in our Lectures to My Students summary.