Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Blessed One, once crucified for you, who ever liveth to make intercession for you? Cling to the cross, then, put both arms around it! Hold to the Crucified, and never let Him go. Come afresh to the cross at this moment, and rest there now and for ever! Then, with the power of God resting upon you, go forth and preach the cross! Tell out the story of the bleeding Lamb. Repeat the wondrous tale, and nothing else. Never mind how you do it, only proclaim that Jesus died for sinner.The cross held up by a babe’s hands is just as powerful as if a giant held it up. The power lies in the word itself, or rather in the Holy Spirit who works by it and with it. O glorious Christ, when I have had a vision of Thy cross, I have seen it at first like a common gibbet, and Thou wast hanging on it like a felon; but, as I have looked, I have seen it begin to rise, and tower aloft till it has reached the highest heaven, and by its mighty power has lifted up myriads to the throne of God. I have seen its arms extend and expand until they have embraced all the earth. I have seen the foot of it go down deep as our helpless miseries are; and what a vision I have had of Thy magnificence, O Thou crucified One! Brethren, believe in the power of the cross for the conversion of those around you. Do not say of any man that he cannot be saved. The blood of Jesus is omnipotent. Do not say of any district that it is too sunken, or of any class of men that they are too far gone: the word of the cross reclaims the lost. Believe it to be the power of God, and you shall find it so.Believe in Christ crucified, and preach boldly in His name, and you shall see great and gladsome things. Do not doubt the ultimate triumph of Christianity. Do not let a mistrust flit across your soul. The cross must conquer; it must blossom with a crown, a crown commensurate with the person of the Crucified, and the bitterness of His agony. His reward shall parallel His sorrows. Trust in God, and lift your banner high, and now with psalms and songs advance to battle, for the Lord of hosts is with us, the Son of the Highest leads our van. Onward, with blast of silver trumpet and shout of those that seize the spoil. Let no man’s heart fail him! Christ hath died! Atonement is complete! God is satisfied! Peace is proclaimed! Heaven glitters with proofs of mercy already bestowed upon ten thousand times ten thousand! Hell is trembling, heaven adoring, earth waiting. Advance, ye saints, to certain victory! You shall overcome through the blood of the Lamb.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross? What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Blessed One, once crucified for you, who ever liveth to make intercession for you? Cling to the cross, then, Put both arms around it! Hold to the Crucified, and never let Him go. Come afresh to the cross at this moment, and rest there now and for ever! Then, with the power of God resting upon you, go forth and preach the cross! Tell out the story of the bleeding Lamb. Repeat the wondrous tale, and nothing else. Never mind how you do it, only proclaim that Jesus died for sinner.The cross held up by a babe’s hands is just as powerful as if a giant held it up. The power lies in the word itself, or rather in the Holy Spirit who works by it and with it. O glorious Christ, when I have had a vision of Thy cross, I have seen it at first like a common gibbet, and Thou wast hanging on it like a felon; but, as I have looked, I have seen it begin to rise, and tower aloft till it has reached the highest heaven, and by its mighty power has lifted up myriads to the throne of God. I have seen its arms extend and expand until they have embraced all the earth. I have seen the foot of it go down deep as our helpless miseries are; and what a vision I have had of Thy magnificence, O Thou crucified One! Brethren, believe in the power of the cross for the conversion of those around you. Do not say of any man that he cannot be saved. The blood of Jesus is omnipotent. Do not say of any district that it is too sunken, or of any class of men that they are too far gone: the word of the cross reclaims the lost. Believe it to be the power of God, and you shall find it so.Believe in Christ crucified, and preach boldly in His name, and you shall see great and gladsome things. Do not doubt the ultimate triumph of Christianity. Do not let a mistrust flit across your soul. The cross must conquer; it must blossom with a crown, a crown commensurate with the person of the Crucified, and the bitterness of His agony. His reward shall parallel His sorrows. Trust in God, and lift you banner high, and now with psalms and songs advance to battle, for the Lord of hosts is with us, the Son of the Highest leads our van. Onward, with blast of silver trumpet and shout of those that seize the spoil. Let no man’s heart fail him! Christ hath died! Atonement is complete! God is satisfied! Peace is proclaimed! Heaven glitters with proofs of mercy already bestowed upon ten thousand times ten thousand! Hell is trembling, heaven adoring, earth waiting. Advance, ye saints, to certain victory! You shall overcome through the blood of the Lamb.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My reason for believing in Christ is not that I feel my need of Him, but that I have a need of him… When I come to Jesus, I know I cannot come unless I am awakened, but nevertheless, I do not come as an awakened sinner. I do not stand at the foot of his cross to be washed because I have repented. I bring nothing when I come but sin. A sense of need is a good feeling, but when I stand at the foot of the cross, I do not believe in Christ because I have good feelings, but I believe in him whether I have good feelings or not. The basis on which a sinner comes to Christ is that he is black, not that he knows he is black; that he is dead, not that he knows he is dead; that he is lost, not that he knows he is lost… Generally, the people who repent the most think they are impenitent. People feel their need most when they think they do not feel at all, for we are no judges of our feelings. Hence the gospel invitation is not put upon the ground of anything of which we can be a judge. It is put on the basis of our being sinners, and nothing but sinners.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Be interested yourself, and you will interest others.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon