Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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107. “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

108. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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113. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

— 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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

125. “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

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

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

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

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

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131. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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137. “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

138. “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

139. “Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.”

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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. “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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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143. “God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

144. “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

145. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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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