Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

Charles Spurgeon
I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

Charles Spurgeon
God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Charles Spurgeon
There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had.

Charles Spurgeon
A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

Charles Spurgeon
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Charles Spurgeon
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

Charles Spurgeon
Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.

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

Charles Spurgeon
Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

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God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

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All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

Charles Spurgeon
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Charles Spurgeon
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

Charles Spurgeon
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Charles Spurgeon
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Spurgeon
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

Charles Spurgeon
As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.

Charles Spurgeon
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

Charles Spurgeon
Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Charles Spurgeon
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Charles Spurgeon
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Charles Spurgeon
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Charles Spurgeon
The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Charles Spurgeon
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.

Charles Spurgeon
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Charles Spurgeon
A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Charles Spurgeon
The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

Charles Spurgeon