Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Many tradesmen export their best commodities-the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour, but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Heart language is logic set on fire.

~ 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 Haddon Spurgeon

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Socrates used to say, Philosophers can be happy without music; and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a consecrated ingenuity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair, but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Remember how it is written of Job, “The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.” While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him, and loosed his captivity

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Will you not this day make it your prayer? Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

John Bunyan says that he never forgot the divinity he taught, because it was burnt into him when he was on his knees. That is the way to learn the gospel. If you learn it upon your knees you will never unlearn it. That which “men” teach you, men can unteach you – if I am merely convinced by reason, a better reasoner may deceive me. If I merely hold my doctrinal opinions because they seem “to me” to be correct, I may be led to think differently another day. But if “God” has taught them to me – he who is himself pure truth – I have not learned amiss, but I have so learned that I shall never unlearn, nor shall I forget.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon