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
“We must have the Word of the Lord.
With this Word alone we can withstand the devil.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Tablets of stone, though apparently durable, can readily enough be broken, and so can God’s commands; so are they indeed broken every day by us, and those who have the clearest knowledge of the will of God nevertheless offend against him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“You may preach up the anger of God, and the terrors of the world to come, but these do not melt the heart to loyal obedience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“You consider sin a mere trifle, scarcely worth thinking about;
but God regards it as an evil and an accursed thing.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The sword of justice hath less power over human hearts than the sceptre of mercy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Priceless as the gift of speaking may be,
the practice of silence in some aspects far excels it.
— Charles Spurgeon
“When the Holy One smites his own Son, his wrath against sin is evident to all.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We never rest till the Comforter makes us lie down.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If God takes away the guilt of sin, he is sure at the same time to remove the power of sin.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:
1. It exercises our humility.
2. It instructs our faith.
3. It lights us up with joy.
4. It inflames us with love.
5. It inspires us with zeal.
6. It lifts us up towards heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
“Let the temple of my body be the Lord’s.
He has built it and has cleansed it with his blood.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“My brother said to me, the other day, when he had been seeing one of our members pass away, Brother, we can say to one another what the two Wesleys said, ‘Our people die well.’”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It seems to me a blessed privilege for us to be permitted to love one so great as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
We pray with boldness.
Not the boldness of the rebel who carries a brazen front in the presence of his offended king, but the boldness of the child who fears because he loves, and loves because he fears.
— Charles Spurgeon
“Grace makes no man proud.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The ills of life are turned into blessings when once a man believes in Jesus, and fully trusts in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“All that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the Lamb.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Faith in Christ can make even trouble to be welcome, and affliction to be regarded as a gain.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“So long as we are receivers of mercy we must be givers of thanks.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Be thankful for the thorns and thistles which keep you from being in love with this world.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh! if there be a harlot here, or a man who has fallen into all sorts of gross sin, Christ can and will deliver you if you will only come and repose your heart’s trust in him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There is no joy in this world like union with Christ.
The more we can feel it, the happier we are.
— Charles Spurgeon
“Brother, have you fallen into drunkenness? Faith in Christ can turn that cup bottom upwards for you.”
– Charles Spurgeon