Top 150 Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

102. “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.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

103. “Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

104. “Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.”

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

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106. “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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107. “Youth is susceptible to evil doctrine. Whether we teach young Christians truth or not, the devil will be sure to teach them error. They will hear of it somehow, even if they are watched by the most careful guardians. The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh, that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

108. “The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

109. “Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus’ bosom.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

110. “It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.”

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111. “The Lord our God, who instructs us to believe, also enables us to believe. All that we do that is acceptable to God is because the Lord works it in us;.”

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112. “I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God’s finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

113. “If we were more near to Jesus – we would be more near to one another.”

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114. “A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.”

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115. “A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .”

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116. “If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!”

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117. “Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.”

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118. “The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads.”

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119. “If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

120. “We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon’s direction for the building of the Temple.”

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121. “God’s Fatherly prerogative, ” is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King’s crown is forgotten in the King’s face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy – the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.”

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122. “Yet the Word is absolutely necessary, for otherwise care will darken into unhealthy concern, and conscientiousness may become superstition.”

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123. “Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.”

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124. “It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.”

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125. “There would be nobody to receive mercy if nobody were guilty.”–1894, Sermon 2372.”

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126. “In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.”

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127. “Whether our Master shall say, “Go” or “Stay,” let us be equally well pleased as long as He indulges us with His presence.”

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128. “Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.”

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129. “If you find any difficulty in illustrating your subject, I should strongly recommend you to try to teach children whenever you can get an opportunity of doing so. I do not know a better way of schooling your own mind to the use of illustrations than frequently to take a class in the Sunday-school, or to give addresses to the scholars as often as you can;.”

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130. “Those who feed upon the Word grow strong and peaceful and are by God’s grace hidden from the strife of tongues.”

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131. “Rejoice, believer, in your union to Him who was numbered among the transgressors; and prove that you are truly saved by being clearly identified with those who are new creatures in Him.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

132. “If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.”

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133. “Perhaps, moreover, we have not yet displayed sufficient submission to the divine will. Patience has not yet had her perfect work. The weaning process is not accomplished: we are still hankering after the comforts which the Lord intends us forever to outgrow. Abraham made a great feast when his son Isaac was weaned; and, peradventure, our heavenly Father will do the same with us. Lie down, proud heart! Quit thine idols; forsake thy fond doting’s; and the promised peace will come unto thee.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

134. “No illustrations are half so telling as those which are taken from familiar objects.”

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135. “May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations.”

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136. “True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Spirit puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.”

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137. “When the Creator gives His creature the power of thirst, it is because water exists to meet its thirst. When He creates hunger, there is food to correspond to the appetite. Even so, when He inclines men to pray, it is because prayer has a corresponding blessing connected with it.”

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138. “After praying, Elisha implemented the actions. Prayer and action must go together. Action without prayer – presumption. Prayer – without action – hypocrisy.”

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139. “God’s grace can keep you abstaining from sin, but, if you begin sinning, oh, how one sin draws on another! One sin is the decoy or magnet for another sin, and draws it on; and one cannot tell, when he begins to descend this slippery slide, how quickly and how far he may go!”–1895, Sermon 2414.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

140. “There is a something in the very tone of the man who has been with Jesus which has more power to touch the heart than the most perfect oratory:.”

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141. “If there is any doctrine too difficult for a child, the fault is the teacher’s conception of it rather than the child’s ability to receive it, provided the child is really converted to God. Our responsibility is to make doctrine simple; this is a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth, for instruction is the great desire of the child’s nature.”

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142. “We ought to prepare the sermon as if all depended on us, and then we are to trust the Spirit of God, knowing that all depends on Him.”

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143. “There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.”

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144. “Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.”

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145. “The best way to preach men to Christ is to preach Christ to men.”

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146. “One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.”

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147. “If God’s mercies were to come to us unasked, they would not be half as useful as they now are, when they have to be sought for.”

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148. “The minister is not always in the act of prayer, but he is always in the spirit of it.”

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149. “Solemn silence makes noble worship.”

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150. “Let me ask you a question. What would you give to cause a thrill of pleasure in the heart of the beloved Redeemer? Remember the grief you cost Him and the pangs which shot through Him on your account, so He might deliver you from your sin and its consequences. Don’t you long to make Him glad? When you bring others to His feet, you give Him joy.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon