Charles Spurgeon quotes

Charles Spurgeon was a renowned British Baptist preacher and author, often called the "Prince of Preachers." His passionate sermons and prolific writings influenced millions throughout the world. He remains one of the most influential figures in the history of Christianity and evangelical preaching. Here are 218 of his quotes:

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Charles Spurgeon)
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. View quote
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark. View quote
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It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. View quote
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Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God. View quote
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Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. View quote
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The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them. View quote
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For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. View quote
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A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots. View quote
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Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for. View quote
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. (Charles Spurgeon)
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. View quote
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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. View quote
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Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. View quote
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. View quote
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. View quote
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her. View quote
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In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. View quote
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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. View quote
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I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves. View quote
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Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success. (Charles Spurgeon)
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. View quote
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I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. View quote
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I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities. View quote
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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. View quote
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