Susie Spurgeon Quotes

I have put Christ in the centre as my sun, and each science revolves around it like a planet, while minor sciences are satellites to these planets.

above all, trust Jesus and distrust self.29

Take courage, my beloved, the sun has not ceased to shine, nor has our God forgotten to be gracious.”7

Ah! How little I then thought that my eyes looked on him who was to be my life’s beloved; how little I dreamed of the honour God was preparing for me in the near future! It is a mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else we might sometimes turn away from our best blessings and put from us the choicest and loveliest gifts of His providence. (quoted in Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon by Ray Rhodes, Jr.)

but the Heavenly Father has sweeter, choicer words than these for His erring children. His love is Divine, so He says, “I have seen his ways and will heal him.” O sweet pitifulness of our God! O tenderness inexplicable! O love surpassing all earth’s loveliest affection! Do not our hard hearts yield under the power of such compassion as this? God knows all our wickedness. He has seen all our waywardness; yet His purpose towards us is one of healing and pardon, and not of anger and putting away.12

How inexpressibly thankful do I feel now for the sustaining grace which upheld me, and enabled me to testify to them [pastors who received books from her] from my own experience, that every promise of God holds true, and that even in the depths of sorrow and darkness, His light shines round about those who put their trust in Him!12

Around the time of his baptism in May of 1850, he wrote his mother: “You, my Mother have been the great means in God’s hand of rendering me what I hope I am. Your kind, warning, Sabbath-evening addresses were too deeply settled on my heart to be forgotten. You, by God’s blessings, prepared the way for the preached Word.”11

It is a mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest and loveliest gifts of His providence.

A promise from God may very instructively be compared to a cheque payable to order. It is given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good thing. It is not meant that he should read it over comfortably, and then have done with it. No, he is to treat the promise as a reality, as a man treats a cheque.23

I do believe in my heart that there may be as much holiness in a laugh as in a cry; and that, sometimes to laugh is the better thing of the two,” he told his students.

These grapes [Bible passages] will yield no wine until we tread on them.”31 Meditation was treading on the words of Scripture—pressing out from them the truth about everything that God taught for the purpose of knowing and walking with God.

Charles and Susie enjoyed communion with God, and that led them to real communion with one another. Real communion in marriage is honest communion. Real communion is built on trust and confidence. This is the picture of a healthy marriage: the husband prays for his wife, the wife prays for her husband, and both pray together. And in that, there is a raw honesty that is safe. The husband or wife fears no loss of love, respect, care, or presence when they open their hearts and pour out their sins, their heartbreaks, their joys, and their sorrows. Why? They know that on the other side of the conversation is a partner who loves them, who is working for their best interests, and who will bring them before the throne of God in prayer. Charles and Susie’s marriage thrived on freedom to ask for help and to expect the other to respond lovingly.

The purpose of suffering, in Charles’s view, was to bring men “near to Jesus” and to a “conscious