Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

107. “Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

108. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

110. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

112. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

121. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

126. “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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

128. “The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

129. “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

130. “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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

134. “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

135. “Faith is reason at rest in God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

137. “Oh, my brethren, bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

138. “Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

142. “Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

143. “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

144. “A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

147. “There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

148. “Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

149. “The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

150. “Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon