Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

354. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

357. “Don’t just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn’t hurt to put a little honey on it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

359. “Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

360. “I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

361. “Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

362. “The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

363. “Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

364. “Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching – where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

365. “Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

366. “Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

367. “Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

368. “Idleness is the key of beggary.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

369. “Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

370. “Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

371. “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

372. “There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner’s stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

373. “It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

375. “I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

376. “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

377. “I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

378. “We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

380. “Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

381. “We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

382. “Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

383. “I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

384. “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

385. “An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

387. “Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

388. “Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

389. “Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

390. “Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

391. “Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

392. “The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

393. “Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

394. “If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

395. “If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

396. “Victory needs conflict as its preface.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

397. “He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

398. “My soul, never laugh at sin’s fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord’s enemy.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

399. “Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

400. “The preacher’s work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon