Top 150 Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

52. “Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

53. “I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.”

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54. “Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.” – 2 Chronicles 30:27 PRAYER is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

55. “Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.”

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56. “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

57. “The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.”

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58. “God will not use dead tools for working living miracles;.”

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59. “The most difficult book you will ever read is your own heart.”

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60. “The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.”

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61. “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.”

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62. “Without oil the axle soon grows hot, and accidents occur; and if there be not a holy cheerfulness to oil our wheels, our spirits will be clogged with weariness.”

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63. “There is no hope for you but in Christ. Rest assured that all the mercy of God is concentrated in the Cross. I hear some talk about the uncovenanted mercies of God – there is no such things. The mercies of God are all emptied out into the Covenant. God has put all His grace into the Person of Christ and you shall have none elsewhere. Trust, then, in Christ – so you shall be blessed, but you shall be blessed nowhere else.”

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64. “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.”

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65. “The man who is quite satisfied with the name of a Christian, without the life of a Christian will never see God nor anything at all until his eyes are divinely opened.”

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66. “A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.”

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67. “Happy is he who believes the promise and feels assured of its fulfillment to himself in due time, leaving all else in the hands of infinite wisdom and love.”

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68. “See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

69. “We are all of us remarkably goodtempered while we have our own way; but the true meekness, which is a work of grace, will stand the fire of persecution, and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty, and wrong, even as the meekness of Christ did upon the cross of Calvary.”

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70. “Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.”

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71. “God’s promises were never meant to be thrown aside as wastepaper; He intended that they should be used.”

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72. “The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down – is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.”

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

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74. “To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.”

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75. “The Scriptures in their own sphere are like God in the universe – all-sufficient. All the light and power the mind of man can need in spiritual things is revealed in Scripture.”

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76. “Heart language is logic set on fire.”

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77. “Well may our God be glorious in the eyes of His people, seeing that He has wrought such wonders for them, in them, and by them.”

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78. “If people loved good works as much as they pretend to, they would love the faith which produces them.”

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79. “The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660.”

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80. “The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.”

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81. “Be interested yourself, and you will interest others.”

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82. “The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer.”

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83. “O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord’s lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.”

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84. “If God’s mercies came to us unasked, they would not be half so useful as they now are, when they have to be sought for; for now we get a double blessing, a blessing in the obtaining, and a blessing in the seeking. The very act of prayer is a blessing.”

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85. “What is prayer but the promise pleaded? A promise is, so to speak, the raw material of prayer. Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise. The promise is the power of prayer. We go to God, and we say to him, “Do as thou hast said. O Lord, here is thy word; we beseech thee fulfil it.”

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86. “The surest way to abstain from evil is to be fully occupied in doing good.”

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87. “You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child’s right to a father’s protection.”

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88. “When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.”

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89. “It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins – when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.”

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90. “Jesus has the dew of His youth upon Him. Others grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His throne, world without end.”

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91. “The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.”

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92. “Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away;” but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love.”

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93. “Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power.”

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94. “Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.”

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95. “Despondency, is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God.”

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96. “It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.”

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97. “When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?”

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98. “The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God’s own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with him. They call him their God, and he calls them his people; he is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with him for their portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God’s Israel and Israel’s God.”

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99. “Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.”

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100. “The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.”

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