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
“He that believes in Christ shall be delivered from sin, he shall trample it under his feet; he may have a life-long battle with it, nay, I am sure he will have that, else Christ would never have taught his disciples to pray, Lead us not into temptation.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you as surely as you are now alive.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The case was hopeless until the Lord intervened,
and then all was changed immediately.”
— Charles Spurgeon
What we can do and what God can do are two very different things.
— Charles Spurgeon
“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Shall I not, from the very housetops, shout again and again, —
There is life for a look at the Crucified One;
There is life at this moment for thee?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Paul took care not to steal an atom of the glory for himself,
but he ascribed all to the power of him who loved him and gave himself for him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The sun may leave us, but our God never ceases to shine upon us.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Be sure, dear friends, to have as your minister a man who lives with God, and walks with God; a man who leans his head on the bosom of Jesus, and then comes forward and speaks what his Master has whispered right into his ear.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Many choose to perish forever rather than trust in God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Deliverance follows prayer most surely.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, to preach Christ in a Christly way, — to tell of mercy in the spirit of mercy, and to preach grace in a truly gracious way!”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…]go direct to Christ for truth, and you will preach it strongly, honestly, openly, positively, but you will always preach it with love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The love of Jesus can overcome all adversaries, even death itself.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“[…]there is nothing like going to the Lord Jesus Christ himself as to the well-head of doctrine, and saying to him, Master, what dost thou teach? What can I learn from thee?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Doctrines in the head, without holiness in the life, are of no service.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“One mark of a man’s true wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“[Christ] is our salvation, and we shall never put that salvation in tangible, graspable, real form unless we go to him, and get distinctly from himself the message we are to deliver on his behalf.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterwards to dispense to the people in his name.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“No subject will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“There are some of us who are called to spend our whole lives in our Master’s service; and unless we are often alone with him, listening to the message he has for us to deliver, our streams will not continue to run.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Who knows what is good for us?
God does, and that is better than for us to know.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“A man may go to College, he may learn all about the letter of Scripture, but he is no minister of God if he has not sat at [Christ’s] feet, and learned of him[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon