Sermons & Devotionals by C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861 the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

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DOMINEERING

Doubtless, there is a tendency with us all to wish to impose our opinions upon others, by all available means. The exaggeration of anxiety for our fellow-men would lead us to adopt wrong means to make them of a right opinion; we forget that men’s consciences and judgments are never touched by such r... Read More

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DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS

Mark Antony yoked two lions to his chariot; but there are two lions no man ever yoked together yet—the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the lion of the pit. These can never go together. Two opinions you may hold in politics, perhaps, but then you will be despised by everybody, unless you are of one op... Read More

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DOUBT

Our failure lies in want of faith, not in excess of it. It would be hard to believe God too much: it is dreadfully common to believe him too little. AP89 I heard of a little girl whose mother found her one day with a carving knife and the family Bible. “What are you doing?” she asked, in some surpri... Read More

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DREAMS

Were you ever pained by a dream? I will hold no man responsible for his dreams; but, if there were no sin in us, we should have no sin even in our dreams. If we were perfectly pure,—as some think that they are,—we should be perfectly pure even in our dreams. 2609.80... Read More

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DUTY

Men do not get character among their fellows by indolence and listlessness, or by pretensions and talk. Action! action!—this is what the world wants; and there is more truth than we have dreamed in Nelson’s aphorism, “England expects every man to do his duty.” 600.647 It is a good saying of an old d... Read More

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EARLY DEVOTION

A smile from Jesus in the morning will be sunshine all the day. BA15 On the first of May in olden times, according to annual custom, many inhabitants of London went into the fields to bathe their faces with the early dew upon the grass under the idea that it would render them beautiful. Some writers... Read More

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EARTH, NEW

As if in sympathy with the woes of earth, the sea is for ever fretting along a thousand shores, wailing with a sorrowful cry like her own birds, booming with a hollow crash of unrest, raving with uproarious discontent, chafing with hoarse wrath, or jangling with the voices of ten thousand murmuring ... Read More

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EASY BELIEVISM

What is the use of religion which comes up in a night, and perishes as soon? Ah, me! what empty bragging we have heard! The thing was done, but then it was never worth doing; soon things were as if it had never been done; and, moreover, this sham way of doing it made it all the harder toil for the r... Read More

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EDUCATION

Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the Grecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy and revelation. ME539 The best education is educatio... Read More

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ELECTION

Brethren, the election of grace, which is so often denounced, is a fact which men need not speak against, since they do not themselves desire to be elected. I can never make out why a man should cavil at another’s being chosen when he does not himself wish to be chosen. AM323 I believe the doctrine ... Read More

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ELECTION -CORPORATE

Here again, our opponents have tried to overthrow election by telling us that it is an election of nations, and not of people. But here the Apostle says, “God hath from the beginning chosen you.” It is the most miserable shift on earth to make out that God hath not chosen persons but nations, becaus... Read More

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ELECTION -DISBELIEF OF

However much this may be disputed, as it frequently is, you must first deny the authenticity and full inspiration of the Holy Scripture before you can legitimately and truly deny it. 123.130 I believe the man who is not willing to submit to the electing love and sovereign grace of God, has great rea... Read More

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ELECTION -FORESEEN FAITH

“But,” say others, “God elected them on the foresight of their faith.” Now, God gives faith, therefore he could not have elected them on account of faith, which he foresaw. There shall be twenty beggars in the street, and I determine to give one of them a shilling; but will any one say that I determ... Read More

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ELECTION -FORESEEN VIRTUE

But I think no sincere and earnest student of Scripture will ever believe that God commences to love his people when they begin to love him. 3133.99... Read More

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ELECTION -JOY IN

When David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made him do so. ME604 There is no more humbling doctrine in Scripture than that of election, none more promoting of gratitude, and, consequently, none more sanctifying. Believers should not be afraid of it, but adoringly rejoice in it. M... Read More

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ELECTION -JUSTIFICATION OF

Who is to have the authority in the matter of gracious adoption. The children of wrath? Surely not; and yet all men are such! No; it stands to nature, to reason, to common sense, that none but the parent can have the discretion to adopt. 587.488 If the Lord should choose to show mercy to only one ma... Read More

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ELECTION -PREACHING ON

A controversialist once said, “If I thought God had a chosen people, I should not preach.” That is the very reason why I do preach. What would make him inactive is the mainspring of my earnestness. If the Lord had not a people to be saved, I should have little to cheer me in the ministry. 2167.551 I... Read More

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ELECTION -STUMBLING OVER

But there are some who say, “It is hard for God to choose some and leave others.” Now, I will ask you one question. Is there any of you here this morning who wishes to be holy, who wishes to be regenerate, to leave off sin and walk in holiness? “Yes, there is,” says some one, “I do.” Then God has el... Read More

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ELECTION -UNTO HOLINESS

God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but He called them that they might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by His workmanship in them. ME329 Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is. 801.162 There is no man in this world chosen to go to heaven apart from... Read More

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EMOTIONALISM

When passion has run away with a man, who knows where it will carry him? PP143 Ah! dear friends, one half of the emotions excited in our places of worship are of no more value than those excited at the theatre. 653.559 That which is wrought by noise will subside when quiet reigns, as the bubble dies... Read More

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