Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

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

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

~ Charles Haddon 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

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 Haddon Spurgeon

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He who has two grounds of trust is lost! He who relies upon twosalvations, and cannot say of Christ, “He is all my salvation and all my desire,” that man is not only in danger of beinglost, but he is already condemned; because, in fact, he believes not on the Son of God! He is not alive to God at all, but rests partly on the Cross, and then in some measure on something else.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon 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.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.. . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The things that are essential to salvation are so exceedingly simple that no child need sit down in despair of understanding the things which make for his peace. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people. True it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are enough in the novelty business without us; and we have something better to do. We have to give an account unto our God of what we do and say, and if we have been murderers of souls, it will be no excuse that we flourished the dagger well, or that when we gave them poison we mixed the draught cleverly, and presented it with poetical phrases.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

~ 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

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon