Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

252. “Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

253. “The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

255. “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

256. “Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

257. “We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

258. “The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

259. “We must mark God’s providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

260. “Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

262. “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

263. “Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

264. “Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

265. “It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

267. “A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

268. “Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

269. “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

270. “Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

271. “Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

272. “The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

273. “A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

274. “We are not alarmed because Satan hinders us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord’s side, and are doing the Lord’s work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

275. “Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

276. “God’s children are God’s children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

277. “You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

278. “We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

279. “Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

280. “Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

281. “You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

282. “Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

284. “A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

285. “Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

286. “When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

287. “One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

288. “A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

290. “The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

291. “Obedience is the highest practical courage.”

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292. “Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

293. “So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

294. “That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

295. “If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

296. “Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life’s song, ‘He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.’”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

298. “A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

299. “I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!”

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300. “I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon