Favorite Quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Every promise of scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request: “Do as You have said.” The Creator will not cheat His creature who depends on His truth; and far more, the heavenly Father will not break His word to His own child. -Charles Spurgeon
No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the hid treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence. -Charles Spurgeon
A good character is the best tombstone; those who love you, and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. -Charles Spurgeon
How independent of outward circumstances the Holy Spirit can make the Christian! -Charles Spurgeon
Inconsistent Christians injure the gospel more than the sneering critic or the infidel. -Charles Spurgeon
Oh let my trembling soul be still and trust Thy wise, Thy holy will. I cannot Lord thy purpose see, but all is well since ruled by Thee. -Charles Spurgeon
God will have no strength used in His battles but the strength which He Himself imparts. -Charles Spurgeon
Trials make the promise sweet; Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there. -Charles Spurgeon
Fiery trials make golden Christians. -Charles Spurgeon
There is no excuse for fear when God is the foundation of our trust....we have been in many trials, but we have never yet been in a place where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Isaiah 26:4 -Charles Spurgeon
Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out the window which hope has opened.
-Charles Spurgeon
Who told you that night would never end in day? Who told you that the winter of your discontent would proceed from frost to frost…do you not know that day follows night? That spring and summer succeed winter? Hope then! Hope ever! For God fails you not. -Charles Spurgeon
The Lord will follow through on His covenant promises. Whatever He takes and holds in His hand He will accomplish. Therefore His past mercies are guarantees for the future, and worthy reasons for continuing to cry out to Him. -Charles Spurgeon
Whatever you are, and wherever you are, remember that God is just what you need and just where you need. He can do all you need. -Charles Spurgeon
Past times of deliverance are strong pleas for present assistance. What the Lord has done in the past, He will do again, for He never changes. He is faithful to His promises and gracious to His saints. He will not turn away from His people. -Charles Spurgeon
A kindred-spirit friend sees through all your many layers, into the core of your heart--always understanding, always loving the sum total of who you are. -Charles Spurgeon
Unless you think properly about God, you won't be able to think properly about other things.
-Charles Spurgeon
He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it….I am His servant, not His advisor. I call on Him, and He will deliver. -Charles Spurgeon
It is not our hold on Christ that saves us, but His hold on us! -Charles Spurgeon
If Christ were only a cistern, we might soon exhaust His fullness, but who can drain a fountain? Myriads of spirits have drawn their supplies from Him, and not one of them has murmured at the scantiness of His resources. -Charles Spurgeon
He humbled Himself... Philippians 2:8 A sense of Christ’s amazing love for us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt….Pride cannot live beneath the cross.
-Charles Spurgeon
No joy can excel that of the soldier of Christ: Jesus reveals Himself so graciously, and give such sweet refreshment, that the warrior feels more calm and peace in his daily strife than others in their hours of rest. -Charles Spurgeon
I need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort & peace. -Charles Spurgeon
Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease unless they are in a state of nearness to Christ, for when they are away from Him, they lose their peace. The nearer to Him, the nearer they are to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to Him, the fuller their heart is, not only of peace, but also of life, vigor, and joy, for these all depend on constant communion with Jesus. -Charles Spurgeon
It is always best to get blessings into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer; then they are blessings indeed, and not temptations.... The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. -Charles Spurgeon
If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally, but mighty through God to do great exploits. -Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
-Charles Spurgeon
He who thinks little of God, thinks much of himself. -Charles Spurgeon
Jesus Christ. He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of his affectionate nature--nothing can affect that. The fig tree may not blossom, and the flocks may cease from the field, it matters not to the man who can sing, "My Beloved is mine, and I am his." Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time. Our country is Immanuel's land, our hope is above the sky, and therefore, calm as the summer's ocean; we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation. -Charles Spurgeon
A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. -Charles Spurgeon
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.' -Charles Spurgeon
Do not desire to be the principal man in the church. Be lowly. Be humble. The best man in the church is the man who is willing to be a doormat for all to wipe their boots on, the brother who does not mind what happens to him at all, so long as God is glorified. -Charles Spurgeon
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church. -Charles Spurgeon
They who love God with all their hearts, find that his ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessedness, do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving him from custom, they would follow him though all the world cast out his name as evil. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering side by side in a setting of gold. -Charles Spurgeon
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Charles Spurgeon
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. -C. H. Spurgeon
No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the hid treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence. -Charles Spurgeon
A good character is the best tombstone; those who love you, and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. -Charles Spurgeon
How independent of outward circumstances the Holy Spirit can make the Christian! -Charles Spurgeon
Inconsistent Christians injure the gospel more than the sneering critic or the infidel. -Charles Spurgeon
Oh let my trembling soul be still and trust Thy wise, Thy holy will. I cannot Lord thy purpose see, but all is well since ruled by Thee. -Charles Spurgeon
God will have no strength used in His battles but the strength which He Himself imparts. -Charles Spurgeon
Trials make the promise sweet; Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there. -Charles Spurgeon
Fiery trials make golden Christians. -Charles Spurgeon
There is no excuse for fear when God is the foundation of our trust....we have been in many trials, but we have never yet been in a place where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Isaiah 26:4 -Charles Spurgeon
Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out the window which hope has opened.
-Charles Spurgeon
Who told you that night would never end in day? Who told you that the winter of your discontent would proceed from frost to frost…do you not know that day follows night? That spring and summer succeed winter? Hope then! Hope ever! For God fails you not. -Charles Spurgeon
The Lord will follow through on His covenant promises. Whatever He takes and holds in His hand He will accomplish. Therefore His past mercies are guarantees for the future, and worthy reasons for continuing to cry out to Him. -Charles Spurgeon
Whatever you are, and wherever you are, remember that God is just what you need and just where you need. He can do all you need. -Charles Spurgeon
Past times of deliverance are strong pleas for present assistance. What the Lord has done in the past, He will do again, for He never changes. He is faithful to His promises and gracious to His saints. He will not turn away from His people. -Charles Spurgeon
A kindred-spirit friend sees through all your many layers, into the core of your heart--always understanding, always loving the sum total of who you are. -Charles Spurgeon
Unless you think properly about God, you won't be able to think properly about other things.
-Charles Spurgeon
He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it….I am His servant, not His advisor. I call on Him, and He will deliver. -Charles Spurgeon
It is not our hold on Christ that saves us, but His hold on us! -Charles Spurgeon
If Christ were only a cistern, we might soon exhaust His fullness, but who can drain a fountain? Myriads of spirits have drawn their supplies from Him, and not one of them has murmured at the scantiness of His resources. -Charles Spurgeon
He humbled Himself... Philippians 2:8 A sense of Christ’s amazing love for us has a greater tendency to humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt….Pride cannot live beneath the cross.
-Charles Spurgeon
No joy can excel that of the soldier of Christ: Jesus reveals Himself so graciously, and give such sweet refreshment, that the warrior feels more calm and peace in his daily strife than others in their hours of rest. -Charles Spurgeon
I need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort & peace. -Charles Spurgeon
Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease unless they are in a state of nearness to Christ, for when they are away from Him, they lose their peace. The nearer to Him, the nearer they are to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to Him, the fuller their heart is, not only of peace, but also of life, vigor, and joy, for these all depend on constant communion with Jesus. -Charles Spurgeon
It is always best to get blessings into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer; then they are blessings indeed, and not temptations.... The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. -Charles Spurgeon
If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should never know how poor we are, but a true prayer is an inventory of wants, a catalogue of necessities, a revelation of hidden poverty. While it is an application to divine wealth, it is a confession of human emptiness. The most healthy state of a Christian is to be always empty in self and constantly depending upon the Lord for supplies; to be always poor in self and rich in Jesus; weak as water personally, but mighty through God to do great exploits. -Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
-Charles Spurgeon
He who thinks little of God, thinks much of himself. -Charles Spurgeon
Jesus Christ. He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of his affectionate nature--nothing can affect that. The fig tree may not blossom, and the flocks may cease from the field, it matters not to the man who can sing, "My Beloved is mine, and I am his." Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time. Our country is Immanuel's land, our hope is above the sky, and therefore, calm as the summer's ocean; we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation. -Charles Spurgeon
A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. -Charles Spurgeon
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.' -Charles Spurgeon
Do not desire to be the principal man in the church. Be lowly. Be humble. The best man in the church is the man who is willing to be a doormat for all to wipe their boots on, the brother who does not mind what happens to him at all, so long as God is glorified. -Charles Spurgeon
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church. -Charles Spurgeon
They who love God with all their hearts, find that his ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace. Such joys, such brimful delights, such overflowing blessedness, do the saints discover in their Lord, that so far from serving him from custom, they would follow him though all the world cast out his name as evil. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as indivisible as truth and certainty; they are, in fact, two precious jewels glittering side by side in a setting of gold. -Charles Spurgeon
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Charles Spurgeon
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. -C. H. Spurgeon