Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “We are not responsible to God for the souls 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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

153. “Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

154. “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

155. “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

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156. “Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.”

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

159. “A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.”

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160. “All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.”

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161. “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

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

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163. “You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

164. “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

165. “If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

166. “Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

167. “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

168. “I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

169. “There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write ‘damnation’ with your fingers.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

170. “Every generation needs regeneration.”

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171. “It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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172. “Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

173. “Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

174. “Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, “Ready for either”.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

175. “If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

176. “There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

178. “Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.”

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179. “None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.”

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180. “Giving is true loving.”

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181. “Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.”

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182. “Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

183. “True prayer is measured by weight, not by length.”

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184. “The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.”

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185. “Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

186. “Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

187. “I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”

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188. “The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

189. “Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

190. “The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.”

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191. “God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port.”

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192. “God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails.”

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193. “A father’s holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.”

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194. “It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

195. “When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God’s love.”

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196. “The world’s one and only remedy is the cross.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

197. “Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.”

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198. “The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.”

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199. “I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”

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200. “Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon