Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

302. “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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

303. “The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

305. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

307. “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

308. “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.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

312. “If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

313. “Thankfulness makes much of little.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

315. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

325. “I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

327. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

332. “All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

333. “Trials teach us what we are.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

334. “Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

335. “You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

336. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

338. “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

339. “It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

340. “Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don’t know where we are going, we know with whom we go.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

343. “A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

344. “Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

345. “I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, ‘If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.’”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

346. “When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

347. “Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

348. “Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

349. “Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

350. “Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon