110+ Charles Spurgeon Quotes On Prayer, Faith And Jesus

Charles Spurgeon was an English preacher who lived in the 19th century. He is known as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is still widely read and studied today. He is often referred to as the "Prince of Preachers" due to his powerful and passionate sermons. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Charles Spurgeon on prayer, faith, life.

Top 10 Charles Spurgeon Quotes

1. The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
2. If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
3. The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
4. A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
5. It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
6. When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
7. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
8. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
9. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
10. By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Spurgeon Image Quotes

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. — Charles Spurgeon

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need. — Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. — Charles Spurgeon

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart. — Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. — Charles Spurgeon

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him. — Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Charles Spurgeon

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Short Quotes

• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
• May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!
• Every generation needs regeneration
• It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?
• God helps those who cannot help themselves.
• Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
• God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.
• A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
• My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Prayer

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? — Charles Spurgeon

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit. — Charles Spurgeon

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God. — Charles Spurgeon

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved. — Charles Spurgeon

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition. — Charles Spurgeon

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. — Charles Spurgeon

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Faith

If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head. — Charles Spurgeon

If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness. — Charles Spurgeon

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. — Charles Spurgeon

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross. — Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. — Charles Spurgeon

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Life

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life. — Charles Spurgeon

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. — Charles Spurgeon

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. — Charles Spurgeon

The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin. — Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. — Charles Spurgeon

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain. — Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. — Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts. — Charles Spurgeon

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Jesus

Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us. — Charles Spurgeon

It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell. — Charles Spurgeon

Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. — Charles Spurgeon

Jesus wept, but He never complained. — Charles Spurgeon

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you. — Charles Spurgeon

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove. — Charles Spurgeon

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'. — Charles Spurgeon

I believe that if I should preach to you the atonement of our Lord Jesus, and nothing else, twice every Sabbath day, my ministry would not be unprofitable. — Charles Spurgeon

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Thankfulness

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness. — Charles Spurgeon

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. — Charles Spurgeon

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too? — Charles Spurgeon

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks. — Charles Spurgeon

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God. — Charles Spurgeon

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love. — Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. — Charles Spurgeon

We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son. — Charles Spurgeon

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Hope

Without Christ there is no hope. — Charles Spurgeon

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet. — Charles Spurgeon

Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God. — Charles Spurgeon

Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. — Charles Spurgeon

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. — Charles Spurgeon

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it. — Charles Spurgeon

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison. — Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Truth

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world — Charles Spurgeon

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world. — Charles Spurgeon

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation. — Charles Spurgeon

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it. — Charles Spurgeon

The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness. — Charles Spurgeon

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth. — Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty. — Charles Spurgeon

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Love

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. — Charles Spurgeon

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever. — Charles Spurgeon

Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people. — Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness. — Charles Spurgeon

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love. — Charles Spurgeon

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. — Charles Spurgeon

Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still. — Charles Spurgeon

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol. — Charles Spurgeon

Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control! — Charles Spurgeon

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Bible

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Charles Spurgeon

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. — Charles Spurgeon

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself. — Charles Spurgeon

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore. — Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. — Charles Spurgeon

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. — Charles Spurgeon

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. — Charles Spurgeon

The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Inspiring

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism. — Charles Spurgeon

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right. — Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments — Charles Spurgeon

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. — Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you. — Charles Spurgeon

I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them. — Charles Spurgeon

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Revered

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. — Charles Spurgeon

Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One. — Charles Spurgeon

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. — Charles Spurgeon

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix! — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Lord

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God. — Charles Spurgeon

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. — Charles Spurgeon

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary. — Charles Spurgeon

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on. — Charles Spurgeon

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us. — Charles Spurgeon

You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand. — Charles Spurgeon

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts. — Charles Spurgeon

When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Christ

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you. — Charles Spurgeon

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. — Charles Spurgeon

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home. — Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him. — Charles Spurgeon

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song. — Charles Spurgeon

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. — Charles Spurgeon

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works. — Charles Spurgeon

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes. — Charles Spurgeon

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Heart

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart. — Charles Spurgeon

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue. — Charles Spurgeon

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds. — Charles Spurgeon

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials. — Charles Spurgeon

It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts. — Charles Spurgeon

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart. — Charles Spurgeon

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! — Charles Spurgeon

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble — Charles Spurgeon

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

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. — Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Charles Spurgeon

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah! — Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. — Charles Spurgeon

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need. — Charles Spurgeon

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart. — Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so. — Charles Spurgeon

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. — Charles Spurgeon

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God. — Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back. — Charles Spurgeon

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. — Charles Spurgeon

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him. — Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Charles Spurgeon

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial. — Charles Spurgeon

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it? — Charles Spurgeon

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon

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. — Charles Spurgeon

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior! — Charles Spurgeon

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. — Charles Spurgeon

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. — Charles Spurgeon

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! — Charles Spurgeon

This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man. — Charles Spurgeon

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom. — Charles Spurgeon

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously. — Charles Spurgeon

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. — Charles Spurgeon

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages. — Charles Spurgeon

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God. — Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. — Charles Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer can never be in excess. — Charles Spurgeon

I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence. — Charles Spurgeon

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes. — Charles Spurgeon

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. — Charles Spurgeon

Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation. — Charles Spurgeon

Atonement is the brain and spinal cord of Christianity. Take away the cleansing blood, and what is left to the guilty? — Charles Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither. — Charles Spurgeon

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair — Charles Spurgeon

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment. — Charles Spurgeon

Life Lessons by Charles Spurgeon

1. Charles Spurgeon taught that faith in God is the foundation of all good works and that the Bible is the source of all truth.
2. He also emphasized the importance of prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
3. He encouraged his followers to be humble and to seek to serve others, and to be faithful to God in all things.