Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

304. “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

305. “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

306. “Obedience is the highest practical courage.”

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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309. “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

310. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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313. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

315. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

318. “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

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

321. “Thankfulness makes much of little.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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324. “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

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

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326. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

333. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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336. “Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

339. “Trials teach us what we are.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

340. “You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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342. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

344. “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

345. “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

346. “The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon