Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 7 of 10

301. “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

302. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

304. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

306. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

307. “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

308. “Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

309. “You’ll never be a winner of souls unless you’re first a weeper for souls.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Featured in: Firsts Quotes

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

311. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

314. “Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

315. “All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

316. “Obedience is the highest practical courage.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

317. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

320. “To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

322. “Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

323. “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!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

324. “The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

325. “Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

326. “Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

327. “If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord’s will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

328. “It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

329. “Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

330. “It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

331. “Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

332. “When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

333. “When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

334. “Thankfulness makes much of little.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

335. “If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

336. “A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

337. “Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

338. “The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

339. “Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

340. “The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

341. “No one served God by doing things tomorrow.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

342. “If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

343. “A good character is the best tombstone.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

344. “God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

345. “Oh, without prayer what are the church’s agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man’s arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man’s eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

346. “After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith’s twin brother and is born at the same time.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

347. “It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence – “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory.””

— Charles H. Spurgeon

348. “As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

349. “For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

350. “We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon