Top 100 Spurgeon Quotes

#1. Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon

Lettie B. Cowman

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#2. It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he "addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.

Bryan Chapell

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#3. A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends

Elisabeth Elliot

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#4. Now think, my brother, you will be in Heaven very soon. Since last year a great number have gone home: before next year many more will have ascended to glory. Sitting up in those celestial seats, how shall we wish that we had lived below?" - Charles Spurgeon

Randy Alcorn

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#5. Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

Randy Alcorn

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#6. If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

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#7. there is a dense crowd; outside the Betting Rooms it is like a great struggle at a theatre door - in the days of theatres; or at the vestibule of the Spurgeon temple - in the days of Spurgeon. An

Charles Dickens

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#8. The Lord will make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which, like a sea, threatens to drown you, shall be a highway for your escape." - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cherie Hill

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#9. Charles H. Spurgeon, in his wry way, once declared, "I daresay the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness."[25]

David Jeremiah

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#10. Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.

Beth Moore

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#11. The law never came to save men. It never was its intention at all. It came on purpose to make the evidence complete that salvation by works is impossible. - Charles Spurgeon, "Law and Grace

Ken Erisman

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#12. The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." - Charles Spurgeon "We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord)." - Edward T. Welch

Randy Alcorn

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#13. Turning to him, Spurgeon said, If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

James MacDonald

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#14. It is no use for you to attempt to sow out of an empty basket, for that would be sowing nothing but wind, wrote Spurgeon.

Ann Voskamp

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#15. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls. Charles H. Spurgeon

Lettie B. Cowman

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#16. Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

Randy Alcorn

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#17. Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#18. The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart. -Charles Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#19. Once, while visiting the continent, Spurgeon was asked about the secret of his ministry. After a moment s pause Mr. Spurgeon said, My people pray for me.

John Piper

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#20. Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. CHARLES SPURGEON

Andrew Murray

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#21. There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

Charles Spurgeon

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#22. Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless His name all the day, and every day.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#23. Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

Charles Spurgeon

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#24. There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Charles Spurgeon

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#25. I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#26. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#27. Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#28. We have not only to be witnesses and pleaders, but we have also to be examples ... If a man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should say nothing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#29. The devils themselves declared Him to be the Son of God; will you mistrust Him?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#30. Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

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#31. If a person obeys because he has no choice in the matter and would rebel if he had the opportunity, there is nothing in his obedience.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#32. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Charles Spurgeon

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#33. Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Charles Spurgeon

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#34. You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#35. In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#36. The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Charles Spurgeon

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#37. The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

Charles Spurgeon

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#38. If a man says, "I have had such-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man," he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for "God hath respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#39. I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Charles Spurgeon

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#40. My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#41. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#42. The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

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#43. In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Charles Spurgeon

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#44. Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

Charles Spurgeon

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#45. My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#46. When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

Charles Spurgeon

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#47. In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#48. We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#49. Every man here, every woman here, every child here whose heart is right with God, may be a soul-winner.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#50. Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

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#51. Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#52. I cannot understand the reason why I am saved, except upon the ground that God would have it so.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#53. The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.

Charles Spurgeon

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#54. Let convulsions shake the solid earth, let the skies themselves be rent in twain, yet amid the wreck of worlds the believer shall be as secure as in the calmest hour of rest.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#55. I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Charles Spurgeon

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#56. You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

Charles Spurgeon

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#57. A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Charles Spurgeon

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#58. You were once a servant of Satan, and no king will willingly lose his subjects. Do

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#59. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#60. We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Charles Spurgeon

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#61. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Charles Spurgeon

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#62. Holiness is like frankincense and myrrh to Him. Forgive

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#63. Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

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#64. Can you not be content to wait a little? Will not your Lord's time - be better than your time?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#65. The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Charles Spurgeon

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#66. They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.

Charles Spurgeon

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#67. The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Charles Spurgeon

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#68. We must not forget that the gospel of Christ is holy. It never excuses sin: it pardons it, but only through an atonement. If

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#69. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

Charles Spurgeon

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#70. Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#71. Be interested yourself, and you will interest others.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#72. Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

Charles Spurgeon

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#73. Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Charles Spurgeon

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#74. When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#75. Yet, let the thought of what life would be without Him enhance His preciousness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#76. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#77. What though distresses afflict me, though Satan assault me, though there may be many things to be experienced before I get to heaven, those are done for me in the covenant of divine grace; there is nothing wanting in my Lord, Christ hath done it all. On the cross He said, It is finished!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#78. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#79. Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#80. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#81. Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Charles Spurgeon

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#82. Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#83. It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Charles Spurgeon

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#84. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#85. Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Charles Spurgeon

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#86. Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Charles Spurgeon

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#87. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

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#88. A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#89. Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Charles Spurgeon

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#90. Let us search ourselves this morning and make our calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no dark forebodings in our mind.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#91. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

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#92. Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

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#93. Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Charles Spurgeon

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#94. The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#95. Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Charles Spurgeon

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#96. I am sick; help me to give You honor by patience. I

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#97. When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#98. When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Charles Spurgeon

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#99. Without oil the axle soon grows hot, and accidents occur; and if there be not a holy cheerfulness to oil our wheels, our spirits will be clogged with weariness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#100. Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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