The Treasury of David Quotes

“God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

“A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

“The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

“They shall stand there to be judged, but not to be acquitted. Fear shall lay hold upon them there; they shall not stand their ground; they shall flee away; they shall not stand in their own defence; for they shall blush and be covered with eternal contempt. Well may the saints long for heaven, for no evil men shall dwell there, "nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous." All our congregations upon earth are mixed. Every Church hath one devil in it. The tares grow in the same furrows as the wheat. There is no floor which is as yet thoroughly purged from chaff.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Since man ceases not to be sinful, it is a great blessing that Jehovah ceases not to be merciful.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Volumes #1-3

“The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“The term "stood" descriptively represents their obstinacy, and stiff-neckedness, wherein they harden themselves and make their excuses in words of malice, having become incorrigible in their ungodliness. For "to stand," in the figurative manner of Scripture expression, signifies to be firm and fixed: as in Romans 14:4, "To his own master he standeth or falleth: yea, he shall be holden up, for God is able to make him stand." Hence the word "column" is by the Hebrew derived from their verb "to stand," as is the word statue among the Latins. For this is the very self-excuse and self-hardening of the ungodly—their appearing to themselves to live rightly, and to shine in the eternal show of works above all others. With respect to the term "seat," to sit in the seat, is to teach, to act the instructor and teacher; as in Matthew 23:2, "The scribes sit in Moses' chair." They sit in the seat of pestilence, who fill the church with the opinions of philosophers, with the traditions of men, and with the counsels of their own brain, and oppress miserable consciences, setting aside, all the while, the word of God, by which alone the soul is fed, lives, and is preserved. Martin Luther, 1536-1546.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down—is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Let us rejoice then, that in "the general assembly and church of the firstborn" above, there shall by no means be admitted a single unrenewed soul. Sinners cannot live in heaven. They would be out of their element. Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. Heaven would be an intolerable hell to an impenitent man, even if he could be allowed to enter; but such a privilege shall never be granted to the man who perseveres in his iniquities.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Verse 71. To feed Jacob his people. (This is a curious specimen of medieval spiritualising, and is here inserted as such. It is amusing to note that a Tractarian expositor quotes the passage with evidently intense admiration. C. H. S.) Observe, a good shepherd must be humble and faithful, he ought to have bread in a wallet, a dog by a string, a staff with a rod, and a tuneful horn. The bread is the word of God, the wallet is the memory of the word; the dog is zeal, wherewith the shepherd glows for the house of God, casts out the wolves with pious barking, following preaching and unwearied prayer: the string by which the dog is held is the moderation of zeal, and discretion, whereby the zeal of the shepherd is tempered by the spirit of piety and knowledge. The staff is the consolation of pious exhortation by which the too timid are sustained and refreshed, lest they fail in the time of tribulation; but the rod is the authority and power by which the turbulent are restrained. The tuneful horn, which sounds so sweetly, signifies the sweetness of eternal blessedness, which the faithful shepherd gently and often instils into the ears of his flock. Johannes Paulus Palanterius. 1600.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Complete

“This day have I begotten thee.” If this refers to the Godhead of our Lord, let us not attempt to fathom it, for it is a great truth, a truth reverently to be received, but not irreverently to be scanned. It may be added, that if this relates to the Begotten One in his human nature, we must here also rejoice in the mystery, but not attempt to violate its sanctity by intrusive prying into the secrets of the Eternal God. The things which are revealed are enough, without venturing into vain speculations. In attempting to define the Trinity, or unveil the essence of Divinity, many men have lost themselves: here great ships have foundered. What have we to do in such a sea with our frail skiffs?”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Commentary on the Psalms

“A "faithful" man must be, first of all, faithful to himself; then, he must be faithful to God; and then, he must be faithful to others, particularly the church of God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Dios tiene que ser el único objeto de adoración, el único recurso de nuestra alma en los tiempos de necesidad.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“La oración debe ser la llave que abre el día y la llave que cierra la noche.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“Con demasiada frecuencia nos apuramos por ir a la presencia de Dios sin ninguna reflexión previa y sin humildad. Somos como los hombres que se presentan ante un rey sin una petición, entonces, ¿por qué nos sorprende que muchas veces nos perdemos la respuesta a la oración?”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“No dejemos que nuestras oraciones y alabanzas sean las chispas de una mente caliente y precipitada, sino la llama constante de un fuego bien encendido. Pero,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“We shall have to give an account, for we are put in trust with the gospel, and woe to us if we be found unfaithful. We cannot fight a good fight, nor finish our course, unless we keep the faith. To this end the Lord must keep us: only those who are kept by the power of God unto salvation will ever be able to keep his testimonies. What a blessedness is therefore evidenced and testified by a careful belief in God's word, and a continual obedience thereunto. God has blessed them, is blessing them, and will bless them for ever. That”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“the further a soul advances in grace the more spiritual and divine are its longings: an outward walk does not content the gracious soul, nor even the treasured testimonies; it reaches out in due time after God himself, and when it in a measure finds him, still yearns for more of him, and seeks him still.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“God is one, and we shall not know him till our heart is one. A broken heart need not be distressed at this, for no heart is so whole in its seeking after God as a heart which is broken, whereof every fragment sighs and cries after the great Father's face. It is the divided heart which the doctrine of the text censures, and strange to say, in scriptural phraseology, a heart may be divided and not broken, and it may be broken but not divided; and yet again it may be broken and be whole, and it never can be whole until it is broken. When our whole heart seeks the holy God in Christ Jesus it has come to him of whom it is written, "as many as touched Him were made perfectly whole.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Ignorance is worst when it amounts to ignorance of God, and knowledge is best when it exercises itself upon the name of God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Pride consists in an unduly exalted opinion of one's self. It is, therefore, impatient of a rival, hates a superior, and cannot endure a master. In proportion as it prevails in the heart, it makes us wish to see nothing above us, to acknowledge no law but our own wills, to follow no rule but our own inclinations.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Cultivemos el espíritu de oración que es aún mejor que el hábito de orar. A veces parece que hay oración donde hay poca devoción. Debemos comenzar a orar antes de arrodillarnos, y no debemos dejar de hacerlo cuando nos ponemos de pie. Versículo”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“The rivers of pardon and the rivers of grace, the rivers of the promise and the rivers of communion with Christ, are never-failing sources of supply.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: The Complete Seven Volumes

“Unto the end of the world.” Venantius Fortunatus eleven hundred years ago witnesses to the peregrinations of Paul the apostle. He passed the ocean’s curled wave,
As far as islands harbours have;
As far as Brittain yields a bay,
Or Iceland’s frozen shore a stay.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David

“Verse 4.—“Unto the end of the world.” Venantius Fortunatus eleven hundred years ago witnesses to the peregrinations of Paul the apostle. He passed the ocean’s curled wave,
As far as islands harbours have;
As far as Brittain yields a bay,
Or Iceland’s frozen shore a stay. John Cragge, 1557.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David

“Whole Psalm. Psalm 130 is a Song of Forgiveness; Psalm 131 is a Song of Humility: the former celebrates the blessedness of the man whose transgressions are pardoned, the latter celebrates the blessedness of the man who is of a meek and lowly spirit. Forgiveness should humble us. Forgiveness implies sin; and should not the sinner clothe himself with humility? and when not for any desert of his, but simply by the free grace of Heaven, his sins have been pardoned, should he not bind the garments of humility still more closely about him? The man who is of a nature at once sincere and sweet, will be even more humbled by the sense of an undeserved forgiveness than by the memory of the sins from which it has cleansed him. Very fitly, therefore, does the Psalm of humility follow the Psalm which sings of the Divine loving kindness and tender mercy.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Charles Spurgeon Commentary on Psalms (with Active Table of Contents) [Illustrated]

“Cultivemos el espíritu de oración que es aún mejor que el hábito de orar. A veces parece que hay oración donde hay poca devoción. Debemos comenzar a orar antes de arrodillarnos, y no debemos dejar de hacerlo cuando nos ponemos de pie.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“Organizaré mis oraciones”, las pondré en orden, y las colocaré en los lugares apropiados a fin de poder orar con todas mis fuerzas y hacerlo de un modo aceptable.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos

“Escucha, oh Jehová, mis palabras. Considera mi gemir.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, El tesoro de David: Selecciones de los Salmos