Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

352. “I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

353. “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

354. “Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

355. “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

356. “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

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

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358. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

360. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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362. “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

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. “If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

365. “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

366. “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

367. “We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

368. “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

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

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370. “When home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

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373. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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376. “If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

377. “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

378. “Idleness is the key of beggary.”

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379. “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.”

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380. “Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

381. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

384. “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

385. “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

386. “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

387. “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.”

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388. “The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.”

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389. “None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

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390. “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.”

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391. “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!”

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392. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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395. “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

396. “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

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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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400. “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