Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Prayer is not a hard requirement – it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

103. “You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

104. “The glory of God’s faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.”

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105. “Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

106. “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”

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107. “The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

108. “Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.”

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109. “Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.”

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110. “Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.”

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111. “There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”

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112. “The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”

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113. “The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church.”

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114. “Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

115. “Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.”

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116. “My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

117. “Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

118. “When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

119. “We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.”

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120. “If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

121. “Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

122. “Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.”

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123. “Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.”

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124. “I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

125. “This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.”

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126. “If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

127. “Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.”

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128. “When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.”

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129. “Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

130. “Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.”

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131. “Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.”

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132. “Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

133. “We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it.”

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134. “If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

135. “Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

136. “Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.”

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137. “The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”

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138. “No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.”

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139. “The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.”

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140. “Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.”

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141. “Bible study is the metal that forges a Christian.”

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142. “Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.”

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143. “I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.”

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144. “Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

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145. “Suffering times are a Christian’s harvest time.”

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146. “What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost’s remarks notwithstanding, I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

147. “You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

148. “When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

149. “To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

150. “Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord’s office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon