Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “God is with us, and His power is around us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

52. “Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

53. “Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

54. “If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

55. “When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

56. “Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

57. “True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

58. “If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

59. “No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

60. “The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

61. “Fiery trials make golden Christians.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

62. “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

63. “Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

64. “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 H. Spurgeon

65. “The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

66. “If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God’s word for it; what more is needed?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

67. “The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

68. “We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

69. “Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

70. “The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

71. “Of two evils, choose neither.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

72. “Jesus wept, but He never complained.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

73. “I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, “Don’t be a minister if you can help it,” because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

74. “Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

75. “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

76. “Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

77. “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

78. “Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

79. “A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

80. “Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

81. “I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

82. “It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

83. “The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

84. “Suffering saints are living seed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

85. “The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

86. “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

87. “I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

88. “If God calls you to be a minister, don’t stoop to becoming a king.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

89. “Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

90. “I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

91. “I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

92. “The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

93. “To pray is to mount on eagle’s wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

94. “When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

95. “Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

96. “Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

97. “It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

98. “The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

99. “A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

100. “A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul...”

— Charles H. Spurgeon