Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Go forth today, by the help of God’s Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life – come poverty, come wealth, in death – come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord’s. For this is written on your heart, ‘We love Him because He first loved us.’”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

252. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

254. “Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.”

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255. “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.”

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256. “God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”

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257. “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

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

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259. “Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.”

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260. “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.”

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261. “As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.”

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262. “No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

263. “Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

264. “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

265. “It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.”

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

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

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

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269. “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

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

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271. “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

272. “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.”

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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275. “God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.”

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276. “If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.”

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

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

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

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

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281. “The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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283. “There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.”

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284. “Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.”

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285. “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

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

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287. “Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.”

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288. “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

289. “The Christian’s life should be one of thankfulness to God.”

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290. “If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

291. “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.”

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292. “A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

293. “A child’s cry touches a father’s heart.”

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

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295. “Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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298. “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.”

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon