Top 100 Spurgeon's Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
Charles Spurgeon
#5. 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
#6. Can you not be content to wait a little? Will not your Lord's time - be better than your time?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ's sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.
Charles Spurgeon
#12. A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man's heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?
Charles Spurgeon
#16. O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord's lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
Charles Spurgeon
#20. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#21. Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.
Charles Spurgeon
#22. Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. If I do not remember thee. Either our beds are soft, or our hearts hard, that can rest when the church is at unrest, that feel not our brethren's hard cords through our soft beds. - John Trapp.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his
plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God's people are not dogs, else they might go
about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. Not, "He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness." His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. When the world my heart is rending With its heaviest storm of care, My glad thoughts to heaven ascending, Find a refuge from despair. Faith's bright vision shall sustain me Till life's pilgrimage is past; Fears may vex and troubles pain me, I shall reach my home at last.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. Will you take my Master's house on a lease for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing but the rent of loving and serving Him forever? Will
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. Although the company that eats at Jehovah's table is as countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his own portion. Think
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. This is the Physician's work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and His to prescribe.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. The greatest and most momentous fact which
the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another's error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
Charles Spurgeon
#37. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#39. A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#40. When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.
Charles Spurgeon
#43. Not an angel more pure than I shall be, for I shall be able to say, in a double sense, "I am clean," through Jesus' blood, and through the Spirit's work. Oh, how should we extol the power of the Holy Ghost in thus making us fit to stand before our Father in heaven!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#44. A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.
Charles Spurgeon
#45. A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile
Charles Spurgeon
#46. All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. O, the atrocity of the sin of a pardoned soul! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's own elect ones, who has had communion with Christ and leaned his head upon Jesus' bosom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. 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
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#50. If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#52. Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God's people.
Charles Spurgeon
#53. Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
Charles Spurgeon
#54. He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#55. The bloody cross was, in fact, the full expression of the world's feeling towards Christ!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#58. Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
Charles Spurgeon
#61. The bleeding, dying, rising Saviour, is the only star of hope to a sinner. Oh for grace to come now and drink, ere the sun sets upon the year's last day!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; he shall guide thee; he will direct all thy ways. In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God's Word always to guide us!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. If none of God's saints were troubled and tried - we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation.
The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double,
but sevenfold;
they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. Don't go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody's stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Spurgeon
#69. God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul's true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.
Charles Spurgeon
#70. Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior's passion!
Charles Spurgeon
#74. It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God's Spirit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. They complain that they have lost their evidences, or that they have not present peace of mind, or that they have no enjoyment in the means of grace, or that conscience is not so tender, or that they have not so much zeal for God's glory.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. Redeeming love has set apart many of the worst of mankind - to be the reward of the Savior's passion. Effectual
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. The Lord's people are dear for another's sake. Such is the love which the Father bears to His only begotten, that for His sake He raises His lowly brethren from poverty and banishment, to courtly companionship, noble rank, and royal provision.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#83. Jesus cannot be in your heart's love except you have a firm hold of Him by your heart's faith; and, therefore, pray that you may always trust Christ in order that you may always love Him. If love be cold, be sure that faith is drooping.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. You cannot be Christ's servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#88. God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.
Charles Spurgeon
#89. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men's testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
Charles Spurgeon
#91. I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles Spurgeon
#92. Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
#93. No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own.
Charles Spurgeon
#95. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins - when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock--riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. It is the Lord's work, and it must be done; my Lord has bidden me do it, and in his strength I will accomplish it." Christian, art thou thus "with all thine heart" serving thy Master?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#100. We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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