Inspirational Quotes by Charles Spurgeon
“Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“While a man is living in his sin, he is out of his mind, he is beside himself. I am sure that it is so. There is nothing more like madness than sin, and it is a moot point among those who study deep problems, how far insanity and the tendency to sin go side by side, and whereabouts it is that great sin and entire loss of responsibility may touch each other. I do not intend to discuss that question at all, but I am going to say that every sinner is morally and responsibly insane and, therefore, in a worse condition than if he were only mentally insane.”–1895, Sermon 2414”
“when we hold our church-meetings we record our minutes and resolutions, but the Holy Spirit only puts down the "acts.”
“Whenever we have to praise God, what do we do? We simply say what He is! ‘You are this and You are that.’ There is no other praise. We cannot fetch anything from anywhere else and bring it to God; the praises of God are simply the facts about Himself! If you want to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, tell the people about Him.”–1891, Sermon 2213”
“Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“If you ask for wealth, you may not get it; for it is a small and paltry[5] thing which the Lord may not care to give you. But if you ask for eternal life, you shall have it; for this is a great thing and God delights to give the greatest blessings to those who come to Him by Christ Jesus, so that what might seem to hinder should now encourage!”–1894, Sermon 2380”
“let a man have his heart weakened in spiritual things, and very soon his entire life will feel the withering influence.”
“It may be difficult to believe in my salvation, but not to believe in my Savior!”–1891, Sermon 2199”
“The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“I have heard all the news I need when I have heard of eternal salvation by Jesus Christ!”–1893, Sermon 2293”
“Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people.”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“If Christ has healed you, obey Him! Obey Him at once, obey Him exactly, obey Him in everything, be it little, or be it great! If some say it is nonessential, remember that what is not essential to salvation may be essential to obedience!”
“Laborious action is frequently a relic of the preacher's trade in former days.”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“Prick the heart—yes, with but a needle’s point—and life will go! And prick the heart of faith—yes, even with the smallest doubt—and the life of joy is gone! The joy of faith and the strength of faith, yes, and the life of faith are gone when you distrust the Word of the Lord!”–1887, Sermon 1979 “It”
“I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, "It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.”
“It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893, Sermon 2317 “No”
“Long prayers either consist of repetitions or of unnecessary explanations which God does not require.”
― Charles Spurgeon ,
“The work that you felt you could not do will have more acceptance with God than that which you performed in your ordinary strength.”–1894, Sermon 2343 3c.”
“By having a change wrought in thee. ‘But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.’ I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable”
“And he is an ever-present Comforter. You will never have to send for him. Your God is always near you. When you are in distress and need comfort, “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” God is “a very present help in trouble.”
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He was converted to Christ at the age of 16 and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was 21. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people. He withdrew from every movement among English Baptists which tended to criticize the Authorized Version 1611 in any way.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions.