Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

452. “Remember, Christ’s scholars must study upon their knees.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

453. “It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

454. “O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

455. “Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth’s broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

456. “If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

457. “Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

458. “Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

459. “Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

460. “When men’s hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

461. “There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

462. “He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

463. “Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

464. “Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

465. “The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, ‘Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.’”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

466. “A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

467. “It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

468. “Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

469. “I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

470. “May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

471. “There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

472. “Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

473. “Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

474. “If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

475. “God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

476. “If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, “I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it.” But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

477. “The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

478. “Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

479. “Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

480. “If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

481. “The world’s proverb is, “God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;” but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven’s help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

482. “Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

483. “It is said that if Noah’s ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men’s business is nobody’s business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

484. “Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

485. “Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child’s play.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

486. “Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

487. “That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass – deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

488. “The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father’s love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

489. “He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

490. “Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

491. “This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

492. “The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

493. “Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

494. “Feel for others – in your pocket.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

495. “I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

496. “If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

497. “This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe – at least I do not – that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

498. “Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel, crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

499. “You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

500. “This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon