Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark - that is faith.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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2. “Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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3. “God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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4. “I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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5. “Growth can be painful, change can be painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it only empties today of its strengths.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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6. “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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7. “If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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8. “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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9. “Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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10. “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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11. “Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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12. “A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

13. “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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14. “Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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15. “The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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16. “Without Christ there is no hope.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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17. “Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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18. “Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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19. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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20. “The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.””

— Charles H. Spurgeon

21. “If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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22. “When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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23. “If Christ be anything, He must be everything.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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24. “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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25. “You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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26. “God helps those who cannot help themselves.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

27. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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28. “God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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29. “Prayer can never be in excess.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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30. “There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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31. “Great faith must have great trials.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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32. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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33. “The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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34. “Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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35. “You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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36. “Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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37. “He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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38. “We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

39. “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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40. “Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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41. “Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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42. “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 H. Spurgeon

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43. “When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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44. “Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

45. “The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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46. “Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

47. “It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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48. “Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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49. “Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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50. “Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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