Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

“Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

“My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up ... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Remember Martin Luther's way of cutting the devil's head off with his own sword. "Oh," said the devil to Martin Luther, "you are a sinner." "Yes," said Luther, Christ died to save sinners." Thus he smote him with his own sword. Hide in this refuge and stay there: "In due time Christ died for the ungodly.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“You cannot do your friend a greater kindness than to admonish him in the Lord, nor can you wish your enemy a greater injury than to go unrebuked.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Faith exists in different persons in various degrees, according to the amount of their knowledge or growth in grace.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Living near the cross of Calvary thou mayst think of death with pleasure, and welcome it when it comes with intense delight. It is sweet to die in the Lord: it is a covenant blessing to sleep in Jesus. Death is no longer banishment, it is a return from exile, a going home to the many mansions where the loved ones already dwell.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“O my Lord Jesus, answer no desire of mine if it be not according to thy judgment; and if in aught that I have asked I have failed to seek for what I want, amend my pleading, for thou art infinitely wiser than I.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Holy Spirit, who is forever the Comforter of the church. It is the Spirit's role to console the hearts of God's people.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Think not that the strength of man shall ever be able to overcome the power of God.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is in your power even now to break the alabaster box and pour the precious oil of joy upon His head, like

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“It is the business of God's people to be trimmers of God's vines.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Experienced Christian, boast not in your experience; you will trip yet if you look away from him who is able to keep you from falling. Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, "We shall never sin," but rather cry, "Lead us not into temptation.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Men dream that heroes are only to be made on special occasions, once or twice in a century; but in truth the finest heroes are home-spun, and are more often hidden in obscurity than platformed by public observation. Trust in the living God is the bullion out of which heroism is coined. Perseverance in well-doing is one of the fields in which faith grows not flowers, but the wheat of her harvest. Plodding on in hard work, bringing up a family on a few shillings a week, bearing constant pain with patience, and so forth-these are the feats of valour through which God is glorified by the rank and file of His believing people.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“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

“Affliction does not come by chance-the weight of every stroke of the rod-is accurately measured.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“O Christian, within a very little time you shall be rid of all your trials and your troubles.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The Two Pilgrims in the Slough”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Savior's sufferings and death. Would”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Faith's way of walking is to cast all care upon the Lord, and then to anticipate good results from the worst calamities. Like Gideon's men, she does not fret over the broken pitcher, but rejoices that the lamp blazes forth the more. Out of the rough oyster-shell of difficulty she extracts the rare pearl of honor, and from the deep ocean-caves of distress she uplifts the priceless coral of experience.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“We should not only let our troubles confirm our dedication to God, but our prosperity should do the same.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“If our life is to resemble the gospel, we must shun, not merely the grosser vices, but everything that would hinder our perfect conformity to Christ.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The question is not, "Am I perfect in myself before the law?" but, "Am I perfect in Christ Jesus?

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“If there are any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place!”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience until the gates of pearl shall open.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Another reason why we are often most happy in our troubles, is this-then we have the closest dealings with God.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of sin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence of God. Job never knew how to get rid”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He has spoken blasphemy." This was a wrong charge to bring-for Pilate, having his superstition again aroused-is even more afraid to put him to death. And he comes out again, and says, "I find no fault in Him." What a strong contest between good and evil in that man's heart! But they cried out again, "If you let this man go you are not Caesar's friend." They hit the mark this time, and he yields to their clamor. He brings forth a basin of water, and he washes his hands before them all, and he says, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it." A poor way of escaping! That water could not wash the blood from his hands, though their cry did bring the blood on their heads-"His blood be on us, and on our children.

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“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

“He is divine to me, if he be human to all the world beside.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith sees that in her worst sorrow-there is nothing penal; there is not a drop of God's wrath in it;

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our seasons of intense delight”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The apostle Paul peremptorily, over and over again, tells us that salvation is not by works; nay, he tells us that it is not by works and grace put together; he testifies that the two principles neutralise and kill each other, and that a man must either be saved wholly as the result of God's favor, or else he must be saved altogether as the result of his own merit, for the two principles cannot in any way be combined.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell's laughter, heaven's abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon