Charles Spurgeon

“I do not know how it is that we have been kept together in love, helped to abound in labour, and enabled to be firm in the faith, unless it be that special grace has watched over us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Emptiness is written upon everyone till the heart comes to its Savior and Lord.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Infinite patience! Immeasurable longsuffering! where are ye to be found save in the breast of the Well-beloved? Surely the hoe has spared many of us simply and only because he who is meek and lowly in heart is the gardener.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The great ocean of Jesus’ loving self-sacrifice can swallow up the mountains of our sins.”

— Charles Spurgeon

In theology, Calvin stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him ~ Spurgeon

“None but God could have had patience with some of us!”

– Charles Spurgeon

“God will spare the sinner because he did not spare his Son.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“The world never helps the church; it is all in arms against it; there is nothing in the world’s air or soil that can fertilise the church even to the least degree.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Better to go to Heaven alone

than to Hell with the herd.

Charles Spurgeon

“The Bible is not only good but better than the best of treasure.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“We cannot commune with God, who is a consuming fire, if there is no fire in our prayers.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Behold, the church is Christ’s Eden, watered by the river of life, and so fertilized that all manner of fruits are brought forth unto God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“To this very day, the ungodly are afraid of Christ, and, often, their raging against him resembles the noise made by the boy who, when hurrying through the graveyard, whistles to keep his courage up.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“You cannot fail to be wise if you commune with Incarnate Wisdom.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“We must put away all notion of self-importance.

God will not bless the man who thinks himself great.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Thus may the Master smile on you, my dearly-beloved, and make you to be such eminent saints that he can have great joy in you; for, then, his joy shall remain in you, and your joy shall be full.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Cling to Christ, beloved.

Go no further than he leads you.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“To touch the hem of [Christ’s] garment is enough for sinners; but it is not enough for saints. We want to sit at his feet with Mary, and to lay our heads upon his bosom as John did.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Lay everything at his dear feet who bled and died for you.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Come to your Lord, beloved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Self-indulgence has slain its thousands. Let us tremble lest we perish by its hands.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“I am not seeking to be great, but to be really useful.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“When a man consciously realizes the love of God in his soul, he cannot want more than that.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Be consumed with love for Christ and let the flame burn continuously.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“When a man is forgiven by God, and knows that he is saved, the joy of the Lord enters his soul, and he says, You may take all other joys, and do what you like with them. I have my God, my Saviour, and I want no more.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“If you rejoice with Christ’s joy to-day, you will have the same cause for rejoicing to-morrow, and for ever, and for evermore, for he says that his joy shall remain in you.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“You have now no liberty to serve another, you are the sworn soldiers of the Crucified.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“God’s love never changes towards his people; the atonement never loses its efficacy[…]”

– Charles Spurgeon