Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

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

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

God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage, she cannot be far from prosperity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly , but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyans were solid upon the central doctrines.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant. They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army withbanners”! A consistent Church is an amazing Church—an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp ofgodly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that arewhat they profess to be, hate the semblance of a lie—whatever shape it wears—and would sooner die than do that which is dishonest, or that which would be degrading to the glory of a Heaven-born race, and to the honor of Him by whose name they have been called! O Christians! You will be the world’s contempt; you will be their despising, and hissing unless you live for one objective!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer. A good old divine remarks, Many times Jesus and His people pull against one another in prayer. You bend your knee in prayer and say 'Father, I will that Thy saints be with me where I am'; Christ says, 'Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He wrought all His mighty acts, and showed Himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.

~ Charles Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer.

~ 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 Haddon Spurgeon

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

~ 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