Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself. ~ Charles Spurgeon

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees. ~ Charles Spurgeon

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

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light. ~ Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. ~ Charles Spurgeon

He is truly great in who hath power over himself. ~ Charles Spurgeon

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

The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnifi ed!' This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you. ~ Charles Spurgeon

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it? ~ Charles Spurgeon

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Jesus wept, but He never complained. ~ Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the thermometer of grace. ~ Charles Spurgeon

God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us. ~ Charles Spurgeon

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial ~ Charles Spurgeon

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ's followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Like other issues of mental health, we don't talk about depression. If we do, we either whisper as if the subject is scandalous or rebuke it as if it's a sin. No wonder many of us don't seek help; for when we do, those who try to help only add to the shame of it all ~ Zack Eswine

There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about ~ Charles Spurgeon

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them ~ Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme ~ Charles Spurgeon

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. CHARLES SPURGEON ~ Andrew Murray

The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible. ~ Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I need the wisdom, reasoning, and apologetics of C. S. Lewis, though some of his theological beliefs are different from mine. I need the preaching and charisma of Charles Spurgeon, though his view of baptism is different from mine. I need the resurrection vision of N. T. Wright and the theology of Jonathan Edwards, though their views on church government are different from mine. I need the passion and prophetic courage of Martin Luther King Jr., the cultural intelligence of Soong-Chan Rah, and the Confessions of St. Augustine, though their ethnicities are different from mine. I need the justice impulse and communal passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, though his nationality is different from mine. I need the spiritual thirst and love drive of Brennan Manning and the prophetic wit of G. K. Chesterton, though both are Roman Catholics and I am a Protestant. I need the hymns and personal holiness of John and Charles Wesley, though some of their doctrinal distinctives are different from mine. I need the glorious weakness of Joni Eareckson Tada, the spirituality of Marva Dawn, the trusting perseverance of Elisabeth Elliot, the long-suffering spirit of Amy Carmichael, the transparency of Rebekah Lyons, the thankfulness of Ann Voskamp, the Kingdom vision of Amy Sherman, and the integrity of Patti Sauls, though their gender is different from mine. As St. Augustine reputedly said, "In nonessentials, liberty." To this we might add, "In nonessentials, open-minded receptivity." We Christians m ~ Scott Sauls

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart. ~ Charles Spurgeon

We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved. ~ Charles Spurgeon

John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. ~ Charles Spurgeon

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Without Christ there is no hope. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool! ~ Charles Spurgeon

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities. ~ Charles Spurgeon

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. ~ Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length ~ Charles Spurgeon

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn. ~ Charles Spurgeon

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. ~ Charles Spurgeon

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

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour ~ Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. ~ Charles Spurgeon

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude. ~ Charles Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel ~ Charles Spurgeon

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." ~ Charles Spurgeon

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

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Bible study is the metal that forges a Christian. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives. ~ Charles Spurgeon

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I think you may judge of a man's character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things. ~ Charles Spurgeon

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing. ~ Charles Spurgeon