Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

202. “I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

203. “Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, “The religion of Jesus is intolerable;” and so you stain the honor of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

204. “Don’t let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

206. “Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

207. “When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

210. “Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you’ll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you’ll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

211. “Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

212. “The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

213. “The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

214. “Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

215. “The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

216. “Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

217. “Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

218. “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

219. “Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

220. “A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

221. “Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

222. “The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

223. “A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind’s face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

224. “Remember that thought is speech before God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

225. “If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

226. “Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

227. “If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master’s service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

228. “Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

229. “An ounce of heart knowledge is worth more than a ton of head learning.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

230. “In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

231. “Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

232. “Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

233. “Prayer is the thermometer of grace.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

234. “There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

235. “Our motto is, “With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere.””

— Charles H. Spurgeon

236. “We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

237. “I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

238. “Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

239. “I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

240. “You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

241. “Our extremities are God’s opportunities.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

242. “You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

243. “Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

244. “The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

245. “No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.” There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

246. “Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

247. “Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

248. “Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

249. “Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

250. “As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon