Top 500 Charles H. Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

407. “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

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

415. “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

416. “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

417. “Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

418. “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

419. “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

420. “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

421. “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

422. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

424. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

426. “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

427. “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

428. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

432. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

436. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

438. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

440. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

444. “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

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

447. “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

448. “We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

449. “Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

450. “There is no exception to this rule: “All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant.” They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon