Charles Spurgeon Quotes And Sayings

Charles Haddon Spurgeon 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”. He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more.

It Is Not How Much We Have, But How Much We Enjoy, That Makes Happiness.

'You Are No Saint,' Says The Devil. Well, If I Am Not, I Am A Sinner, And Jesus Christ Came Into The World To Save Sinners. Sink Or Swim, I Go To Him; Other Hope, I Have None.

This Thing Comes To Me, Not By The Hearing Of The Ear, But By My Own Personal Experience: I Know Of A Surety That Jesus Manifests Himself Unto His People As He Doth Not Unto The World.

Alas! You Complain That Your Soul Is Out Of Tune. Then Ask The Master To Tune The Heart-strings.

Let It Be Our Delight To Find Our Society In The Circle Of Which Jesus Is The Center, And Let Us Make Those Our Friends Who Are The Friends Of Jesus.

Few Men Would Dare To Read Their Own Autobiography If All Their Deeds Were Recorded In It; Few Can Look Back Upon Their Entire Career Without A Blush.

Think Not That Humility Is Weakness; It Shall Supply The Marrow Of Strength To Thy Bones. Stoop And Conquer; Bow Thyself And Become Invincible.

I Do Not Doubt That We Would Become More Useful If We Praised God More, And Others Would Join Us, For They Would See That God Has Blessed Us.

A Vigorous Temper Is Not Altogether An Evil. Men Who Are Easy As An Old Shoe Are Generally Of Little Worth.

We Have Lived Long Enough To Experience The Hollowness Of Earth And The Rottenness Of All Carnal Promises.

Behold, At This Hour Our Moral History Is Being Preserved For Eternity. Processes Are At Work Which Will Perpetuate Our Every Act And Word And Thought.

I Desire To Press Forward For Direction To My Master In All Things; But As To Trusting To My Own Obedience And Righteousness, I Should Be Worse Than A Fool And Ten Times Worse Than A Madman.

However Great May Be The Work For Which We Are Responsible, We Will Always Do Well If We Pause To Spend Time In Sacred Praise.

I Tell You The Groans Of The Damned In Hell Are The Deep Bass Of The Universal Anthem Of Praise That Shall Ascend To The Throne Of My God For Ever And Ever.

What If Others Suffer Shipwreck, Yet None That Sail With Jesus Have Ever Been Stranded Yet.

The First Fresh Hour Of Every Morning Should Be Dedicated To The Lord, Whose Mercy Gladdens It With Golden Light.

I Do Think That A Minister Who Can Preach A Sermon Without Addressing Sinners Does Not Know How To Preach.

I Believe That Some Of Us Who Were Kept By God A Long While Before We Found Him Love Him Better Perhaps Than We Should Have Done If We Had Received Him Directly, And We Can Preach Better To Others - We Can Speak More Of His Loving-kindness And Tender Mercy.

One Word From The Lord Is Like A Piece Of Gold To A Believer, Who Is Like A Jeweler, Shaping And Hammering Out The Promise For A Number Of Weeks.

All The Goodness I Have Within Me Is Totally From The Lord Alone. When I Sin, It Is From Me And Is Done On My Own, But When I Act Righteously, It Is Wholly And Completely Of God.

My Grandfather Once Ventured Upon Publishing A Volume Of Hymns. I Never Heard Anyone Speak In Their Favour Or Argue That They Ought To Have Been Sung In The Congregation. In That Volume, He Promised A Second If The First Should Prove Acceptable. We Forgive Him The First Collection Because He Did Not Inflict Another.

To Despise No Opportunity Of Usefulness Is A Leading Rule With Those Who Are Wise To Win Souls.

Sincerity Makes The Very Least Person To Be Of More Value Than The Most Talented Hypocrite.

May We Do Good Everywhere As We Have Opportunity, And Results Will Not Be Wanting!

O God, We Praise Thee For Keeping Us Till This Day, And For The Full Assurance That Thou Wilt Never Let Us Go.

I Fear That Many A Man's Good Resolutions Only Need The Ordinary Fire Of Daily Life To Make Them Melt Away. So, Too, With Fine Professions And The Boastings Of Perfection Which Abound In This Age Of Shams.

The Three Most Powerful And Most Apparent Means Used By Rome To Retain Her Power Over The Minds Of Her Votaries Are Ignorance, Superstition, And Persecution.

All Our Actions, As Well As Our Thoughts And Words, Should Praise Him Who Always Blesses Us.

Have We Been Going Up And Down In Business, And Are Those Round About Us As Yet Unaware Of Our Christian Character? Have We Never Spoken To Them The Word Of Life? Lord, Arouse Us To A Deep Concern For All With Whom We Come In Contact From Day To Day.

Oh, This Base Heart Of Ours! Hath It Not Enough Tinder In It To Set On Fire The Course Of Nature? If A Spark Do But Fall Into It, Any One Of Our Members Left To Itself Would Dishonour Christ, Deny The Lord That Bought Us, And Turn Back Into Perdition.

As For Our Great King, When We Venture Into His Presence, Let Us Have A Purpose There. Let Us Beware Of Playing At Praying; It Is Insolence Toward God.

If In Prayer I Come Before A Throne Of Grace, The Faults Of My Prayer Will Be Overlooked.

To Every Soul That Knows How To Pray, To Every Soul That By Faith Comes To Jesus, The True Mercy Seat, Divine Sovereignty Wears No Dark And Terrible Aspect But Is Full Of Love.

Knowing That The Time To Sleep Has Come, The Lord Sleeps, And Does Well In Sleeping. Often, When We Have Been Fretting And Worrying, We Should Have Glorified God Far More Had We Literally Gone To Sleep.

The Lord Gets His Best Soldiers Out Of The Highlands Of Affliction.

Time Was When They That Feared The Lord Spake Often To One Another; I Am Afraid That Now They More Often Speak One Against Another.

He Incurs A Fearful Amount Of Guilt Who In The Least Promotes The Aim Of The Evil One By Trampling Upon A Tender Conscience In A Child.

To Feel Not Only Submitted But Willing To Be Anything Or Nothing As The Lord Wills It - This Is, In Truth, To Sing A Song To Our Well Beloved.

Dear Friends, We May Well Sing To Our Beloved When It Is Near The Time Of Our Departure. It Draws Near, And As It Approaches, We Must Not Dread It, But Rather Thank God For It.

Trials Teach Us What We Are; They Dig Up The Soil, And Let Us See What We Are Made Of.

The Greatest Enemy To Human Souls Is The Self-righteous Spirit Which Makes Men Look To Themselves For Salvation.

Occasionally, Some Brother Sings Very Earnestly Through His Nose, Often Disturbing Those Around Him, But It Does Not Matter How The Voice Sounds To The Ears Of Man. What Is Important Is How The Heart Sounds To The Ears Of God.

We Have Come To A Turning Point In The Road. If We Turn To The Right Mayhap Our Children And Our Children's Children Will Go That Way; But If We Turn To The Left, Generations Yet Unborn Will Curse Our Names For Having Been Unfaithful To God And To His Word.

If You Believe In Prayer At All, Expect God To Hear You. If You Do Not Expect, You Will Not Have. God Will Not Hear You Unless You Believe He Will Hear You; But If You Believe He Will, He Will Be As Good As Your Faith.

What An Encouraging Thought That Jesus - Our Beloved Husband - Can Find Comfort In Our Lowly Feeble Gifts! Can This Be, For It Seems Far Too Good To Be True? May We Then Be Willing To Endure Trials Or Even Death Itself If Through These Hardships We Are Assisted In Bringing Gladness To Immanuel's Heart.

There Are Some People Who Need To Wear A Label Round Their Necks To Show That They Are Christians At All, Or Else We Might Mistake Them For Sinners, Their Actions Are So Like Those Of The Ungodly.

A Lie Can Travel Half Way Around The World While The Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.

How Sweet It Is To Learn The Savior's Love When Nobody Else Loves Us! When Friends Flee, What A Blessed Thing It Is To See That The Savior Does Not Forsake Us But Still Keeps Us And Holds Us Fast And Clings To Us And Will Not Let Us Go!

You Will Never Exaggerate When You Speak Good Things Of God. It Is Not Possible To Do So. Try, Dear Brethren, And Boast In The Lord.

The Wounds Of Calumny, The Reproaches Of The Proud, The Venom Of The Bigoted, The Treachery Of The False, And The Weakness Of The True, We Have Known In Our Measure; And Therein Have Had Communion With Our Lord Jesus.