Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher whose sermons were often spiced with humour. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers”. Profoundly inspirational Charles Spurgeon quotes on the gospel, grace, friendship, prayer, god’s sovereignty and death will make you look at life differently.
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Famous Charles Spurgeon Quotes
God helps those who cannot help themselves. Charles H. Spurgeon
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. Charles Spurgeon
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears. Charles H. Spurgeon
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. C. H. Spurgeon
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. Charles H. Spurgeon
Hope itself is like a star not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. Charles H. Spurgeon
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for. Charles Spurgeon
When your will is God’s will, you will have your will. Charles H. Spurgeon
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. Charles Spurgeon
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life. Charles H. Spurgeon
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. Charles Spurgeon
As for His failing you, never dream of it hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end. Charles H. Spurgeon
When your will is God’s will, you will have your will. Charles Spurgeon
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ. Charles H. Spurgeon
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. Charles Spurgeon
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus. Charles H. Spurgeon
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. Charles H. Spurgeon
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. Charles H. Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon
His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God! Charles H. Spurgeon
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that! Charles Spurgeon
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you. Charles H. Spurgeon
You say, If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied. You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. Charles Spurgeon
Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. Charles H. Spurgeon
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget me nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles H. Spurgeon
It was the mighty power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in Him by which Jesus overcame the world and that same quiet power, if it dwells in us, will make us win the same victory by faith. Charles H. Spurgeon
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God. Charles H. Spurgeon
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. Charles H. Spurgeon
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you. Charles Spurgeon
I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace mark that yet it will be the channel of it. Charles H. Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us. Charles H. Spurgeon
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. Charles H. Spurgeon
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that! Charles H. Spurgeon
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. Charles Spurgeon
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for. Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. Charles Spurgeon
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. Charles H. Spurgeon
Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not attempt to touch yourself up and make yourself something other than you really are; but come as you are to Him who justifies the ungodly. Charles H. Spurgeon
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles H. Spurgeon
The law is for the self righteous, to humble their pride the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair. Charles H. Spurgeon
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. C.H. Spurgeon
The same sun which melts wax hardens clay. And the same Gospel which melts some persons to repentance hardens others in their sins. Charles H. Spurgeon
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul. Charles Spurgeon
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. Charles H. Spurgeon
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes about Jesus Christ I have a great need for Christ I have a great Christ for my need. Charles H. Spurgeon
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. Charles Spurgeon
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it. Charles H. Spurgeon
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages. Charles H. Spurgeon
We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it. Charles H. Spurgeon
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. Charles H. Spurgeon
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God. Charles H. Spurgeon
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be much not many. Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see. Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Oh, the glory of that sight! The innocent punished! The Holy One condemned! The Ever blessed made a curse! The infinitely glorious put to a shameful death! The more I look at the sufferings of the Son of God, the more sure I am that they must meet my case. Why did He suffer, if not to turn aside the penalty from us? If, then, He turned it aside by His death, it is turned aside, and those who believe in Him need not fear it. Charles H. Spurgeon
There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes. Charles H. Spurgeon
Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. Charles H. Spurgeon
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up. Charles H. Spurgeon
The Best Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. Charles H. 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 Spurgeon
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. Charles H. Spurgeon
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Charles H. Spurgeon
A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. Charles H. Spurgeon
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. Charles Spurgeon
Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit. Charles H. Spurgeon
I have a great need for Christ I have a great Christ for my need. Charles H. Spurgeon
Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. Charles H. Spurgeon
The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us. Charles H. Spurgeon
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart. Charles H. Spurgeon
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him. Charles Spurgeon
When you feel disinclined to pray, let it be a sign to you that prayer is doubly necessary! Pray for prayer! Charles H. Spurgeon
I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when God has seemed most cruel to me he has then been most kind. If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else it is for pain and affliction. I am sure that in these things the richest tenderest love has been manifested to me. Our Father’s wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace. Love letters from heaven are often sent in black edged envelopes. The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy. Fear not the storm. It brings healing in its wings and when Jesus is with you in the vessel the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven. Charles H. Spurgeon
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. Charles H. Spurgeon
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. Charles H. Spurgeon
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
Is there nothing to sing about to day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next. Charles Spurgeon
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word prayer. Charles H. Spurgeon
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Charles H. Spurgeon
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. Charles H. Spurgeon
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. Charles Spurgeon
The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul. Charles H. Spurgeon
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. Charles H. Spurgeon
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in. Charles H. Spurgeon
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. C. H. Spurgeon
Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure. In some cases the text is as clear as a mirror, till the preacher’s breath bedims it. Charles H. Spurgeon
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. Charles H. Spurgeon
I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly. Charles H. Spurgeon
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator. Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration. Charles H. Spurgeon
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish? Surely that precious word, Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely and that solemn promise, Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out, are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie? Charles Spurgeon
If you think you can never honor Christ till you enter a pulpit, it may be just possible that you will afterwards honor him best by getting out of it as quickly as you can. Charles H. Spurgeon
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it. Charles Spurgeon
The motto of all true servants of God must be, We preach Christ; and him crucified. A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching. Charles H. Spurgeon
The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul. Charles Spurgeon
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. Charles H. Spurgeon
He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own. Charles Spurgeon
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. Charles H. Spurgeon
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Charles Spurgeon
I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error. Charles H. Spurgeon
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away. Charles H. Spurgeon
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. Charles H. Spurgeon
Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way. Charles H. Spurgeon
The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human mythology, or dream of poetical imagination. This method of expiation is only known among men because it is a fact; fiction could not have devised it. God himself ordained it; it is not a matter which could have been imagined. Charles H. Spurgeon
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world. Charles Spurgeon
Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. Charles H. Spurgeon
Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you. Charles H. Spurgeon
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, Do as Thou hast said. The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child. Charles H. Spurgeon
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. C.H. Spurgeon
The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. Charles H. Spurgeon
