Top 150 Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

2. “Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

3. “God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

4. “Short prayers are long enough. There were but three words in the petition which Peter gasped out, but they were sufficient for his purpose. Not length but strength is desirable.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

5. “Willful ignorance is in itself willful sin, and the evil that comes of it is without excuse.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

6. “It is by little procrastinations that men ruin their souls.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

7. “The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

8. “Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

9. “Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10. “More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

11. “Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

12. “As the rainbow is our assurance that the world shall never be destroyed by a flood, so is Jesus our assurance that the floods of human sin shall never drown the faithful kindness of the Lord.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

13. “Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and consecrated the thorny path for ever.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

14. “It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.”

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15. “Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

16. “When Christ was born he lay in a virgin’s womb, and when he died he was placed in a virgin tomb; he slept where never man had slept before.” The.”

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17. “A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

18. “Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

19. “Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

20. “Every place is now God’s temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always “ministering,” offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a “living sacrifice.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

21. “When you plead the name of Christ, you plead that which shakes the gates of hell and that which the hosts of heaven obey, and God Himself feels the sacred power of that divine plea.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

22. “No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.”

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23. “The earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

24. “The Lord is slow to anger,” because He is GREAT IN POWER. He is truly great in power who hath power over himself. When God’s power doth restrain Himself, then it is power indeed: the power that binds omnipotence is omnipotence surpassed.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

25. “And so my Master, who is the great ark of salvation, did not come into this world to save only a few little sinners. “He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him.” Look on him there. See him on the cross, in extreme agony, enduring countless griefs and torments, and sweating in agony, all because of his love for you who were his enemies. Trust him. Trust him, because there is hope, there is restoration.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

26. “Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

27. “Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

28. “Let us show to the people of the world, who think our religion to be slavery, that it is to us a delight and a joy! Let our gladness proclaim that we serve a good Master.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

29. “Nonsense does not improve by being bellowed.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

30. “Remember, weary pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, that you will never get a morsel to satisfy your spiritual hunger unless you find it in Him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from Him; and in times of trouble, His presence is our consolation.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

31. “To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.”

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32. “Young people, you must pray, for your passions are strong, but your wisdom is little.”

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33. “Never make a Christ out of your faith, nor think of as if it were the independent source of your salvation. Our life is found in “looking unto Jesus,” not in looking to our own faith. By faith all things become possible to us; yet the power is not in the faith, but in the God upon whom faith relies.”

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34. “We are not saved by obedience, for obedience is the result of salvation! We are saved by faith because faith leads us to obey! Faith is weakness clinging to strength and becoming strong through so doing.”–1891, Sermon 2209.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

35. “Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness – is but the preparation for your being filled; and your casting down – is but the making ready for your lifting up!”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

36. “Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

37. “Power brings a man to his knee, but love alone wins his heart. Pharaoh said he would let Israel go, but he lied unto God; he submitted in word but not in deed. Tens of thousands, both in earth and hell, are rendering this constrained homage to the Almighty; they only submit because they cannot do otherwise; it is not their loyalty, but his power, which keeps them subjects of his boundless dominion.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

38. “Not only are we ourselves in the hand of the Lord, but all that surrounds us. Our times make up a kind of atmosphere of existence; and all this is under Divine arrangement. We dwell within the palm of God’s hand. We are absolutely at His disposal and all our circumstances are arranged by Him in all their details. We are comforted to have it so.”–1891, Sermon 2205 “All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display His gracious work in us.”–1893, Sermon 2310.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

39. “My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise Thee with joyful lips; when I remember Thee upon my bed, and meditate on Thee in the night watches.” – Psalm 63:5, 6.”

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40. “God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.”

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41. “Let us rejoice then, that in “the general assembly and church of the firstborn” above, there shall by no means be admitted a single unrenewed soul. Sinners cannot live in heaven. They would be out of their element. Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. Heaven would be an intolerable hell to an impenitent man, even if he could be allowed to enter; but such a privilege shall never be granted to the man who perseveres in his iniquities.”

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42. “We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten branches of self-reliance, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The.”

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43. “God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity.”

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44. “All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not till then.”

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45. “The obedience which God’s children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster’s toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father’s way.”

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46. “When Christ died on the cross, our hopes began. When He arose, they were confirmed. When He ascended on high, they began to be fulfilled. When He comes a second time, they will be realized.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

47. “If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.”

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48. “Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.”

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49. “He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe.”

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50. “One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we “find to do” day by day.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon