Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

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

To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

~ 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

My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I would sooner a hundred times over appear to be inconsistent with myself than be inconsistent with the word of God. I never thought it to be any very great crime to seem to be inconsistent with myself; for who am I that I should everlastingly be consistent? But I do think it a great crime to be so inconsistent with the word of God that I should want to lop away a bough or even a twig from so much as a single tree of the forest of Scripture. God forbid that I should cut or shape, even in the least degree, any divine expression.

~ 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

Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, 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

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God is a good paymaster, He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon