Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” [Українська] [Русский]
Charles Spurgeon Quotes
“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Our best performances are so stained with sin that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The whole world may reel to and fro like a drunken man but the Rock of Ages stands secure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We delight to feel that he who has ruled all things for our good does not change.”
— Chalres Spurgeon
“Instead of saying, I would omit prayer if I could, the regenerate mind cries, I wish I could be always praying.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“When it becomes a misery to serve God, then indeed the heart is far away from spiritual health; for when the heart is renewed, it delights to worship and serve the Lord.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and put all your reliance upon him as crucified, risen, and pleading for his people.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The teachings of the New Testament are as sound and true today as they were eighteen hundred years ago.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It is a glorious thing when the heart delights itself in the law of the Lord, and finds therein its solace and pleasure.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“No man who merely skims the book of God can profit from it.
We must dig and mine until we obtain hidden treasure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Married life is not all sugar,
but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When a man admires himself, he never adores God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Because God is the living God, he can hear.
Because he is a loving God, he will hear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“God must melt the heart, must transform it from granite into flesh; and he has the power to do it.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The God who can take away the spots from the leopard, and the blackness from the Ethiopian, can also remove the evil lines which now deface the heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Hold everything earthly with a loose hand;
but grasp eternal things with a deathlike grip.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Christ’s eyes never slumber,
his hands never rest,
and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people’s burdens.”
— Charles Spurgeon