The Daily Spurgeon

In the present age if any man can talk well he will get a following, whatever he may teach. I am astounded a...

There must be a clearing up after every banquet. They went round and gathered up the fragments t...

He that rightly handles the word of God will never use it to defend men in their sins, but to sl...

The members of the body of Christ should have a care for one another, but especially should the minister receive the...

God would have his ministers be like transparent glass, which lets the rays of the sun pass through unchanged; and not ...

The pure motive of any man who serves his generation well is generally misrepresented. As a rule the lounger looks on at the laborer not to ...

It is only at the cross, it is only by Jesus crucified that the world can be healed. Hitherto little has been accomplished compared with our...

A church that is not Christ’s church shall have none of his presence, and a soul that is not Christ’s has no fellowship with him. If he reve...

Strong consolation is that which is not dependent upon the excitement of public services and Christian fellowship. We feel very happy on a S...

It is never worth a minister’s while to go up his pulpit stairs to show his auditors that he is an adept in elocution. Highsounding words an...

There is sadly little prayer in the church for the rising ministry. You pray for those who are your pastors, and rightly so. “Brethren, pray...

We find the most eminent of God’s servants frequently magnifying their office as preachers of the gospel. Whitfield was wont to call his pul...

Brethren, we have no right to thrust a brother into the ministry until he has first given evidence of his own conversion, and has also given...

May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the ...

It would be well if every youthful aspirant to the gospel ministry would remember this, if merely to put our hand to the plough proved us to...

Carry home what of truth you can. Take notes in your heart. And when you have gathered and have your hands full, take care to discriminate. ...

The preacher is compared to a fisherman. The fisherman’s vocation is a toilsome one; woe be to that minister who finds his calling to be oth...

Jesus Christ had spoken certain truths which were highly objectionable to the Pharisees. Some of his loving disciples were in great fright, ...

Amongst the Swiss, the Vaudois, and the Waldenses, every minister trains one young man. Those pastors or shepherds always have a younger bro...

The preacher of the gospel is like the sower. He does not make his seed; it is given him by his divine Master. No man could create the small...