Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

405. “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

406. “Victory needs conflict as its preface.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

412. “Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

413. “As for His failing you, never dream of it – hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

414. “I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

415. “It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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416. “No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

417. “Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

418. “We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

419. “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

420. “Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

421. “You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

422. “Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

423. “We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

424. “Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

425. “Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

426. “I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

427. “I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

428. “If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

429. “Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

430. “Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

431. “A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

432. “The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

433. “Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

434. “Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

435. “Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord’s authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

436. “The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

437. “The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

438. “It is far easier to fight against sin in public than to pray against it in private.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

439. “Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

440. “The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

441. “I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

442. “It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

443. “True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

444. “If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

445. “Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

446. “Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child’s play.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

447. “Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

448. “Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

449. “If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

450. “By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon