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.

C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

EMOTIONS

Judged by changeful feelings, one might be lost and saved a dozen times a day. 1146.689 It is idle to say, “I cannot help it, it is my temperament.” Your temperament will destroy you, as surely as you live, if the grace of God does not destroy your temperament. 1274.46 The two disciples who walked t... Read More

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EMPLOYERS

If you don’t pay your men, they pay themselves, or else they shirk their work. PP50 The Lord’s people should be considerate of those who are in their employment. The recollection of their own bondage should make them tender and kind to those who are in subservience to themselves, and never should a ... Read More

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ENCOURAGEMENT

The way is good, says Chrysostom, if it be to a feast, though through a dark and miry lane; if to an execution not good, though through the fairest street of the city. Non qua sed quo. Not the way but the end is to be mainly considered. FA136 Look upward, and you will perceive no seat of fiery wrath... Read More

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ENEMIES, TREATMENT OF

Notice that this text inculcates not merely passive non-resistance, though that is going a good way, but it teaches us active benevolence to enemies. “Overcome evil with good,” with direct and overt acts of kindness. 1317.560... Read More

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ENVY

Oh! beloved, it is a happy thing to be free from envy. Envy is a curse which blighteth creation; and even Eden’s garden itself would have become defaced, and no longer fair, if the wind of envy could have blown on it; envy tarnisheth the gold; envy dimmeth the silver; should envy breathe on the hot ... Read More

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ESCAPISM

If you want to escape trouble altogether, you had better go up in a balloon; and then I am sure that you would be in trouble for fear of going up too high or coming down too fast. GS57... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY

I do not think we should be so certain of death as some Christians are, because the Lord’s coming is much more certain than our dying. 504.203 Truly he comes quickly, but you must not read that “quickly” after your rendering, for “quickly” with him may be slowly enough for us. We cannot measure the ... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -FANATICISM

Some hearers are crazy after the mysteries of the future. Well, there are two or three brethren in London who are always trumpeting and vialing. Go and hear them if you want it, I have something else to do. 1217.91 In many cases sheer fanaticism has been the result of exclusively dwelling upon proph... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -IMMINENCE

It is idle to talk about looking for His coming if we never set our house in order, and never put ourselves in readiness for His reception. CI150 It ought to be a daily disappointment when our Lord does not come; instead of being, as I fear it is, a kind of foregone conclusion that He will not come ... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -PREMILLENIALISM

It is only Christ’s coming that can make a millennium. 379.255 Some think that this descent of the Lord will be post-millennial—that is, after the thousand years of his reign. I cannot think so. I conceive that the advent will be pre-millenial; that he will come first; and then will come the millenn... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -RAPTURE

In Enoch we see a type of those of God’s people who will go home peacefully before the last closing struggle. Ere the first clash of swords at Armageddon, such Enochs will be taken from the evil to come. 2147.301 Whenever the Lord lays bare his arm for war he first gathers his saints into a place of... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -SIGNS

He is surely coming; and though the date of his return is hidden from our sight, all the signs of the times look as if he might come very speedily. 2477.376 I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet; neither do I profess to be able to explain all the prophecies of this blessed Book. I believe that m... Read More

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ESCHATOLOGY -VISIBLE RETURN

I am not given to prophesying, and I fear that the fixing of dates and periods has been exceedingly injurious to the whole system of premillenial teaching; but I think I clearly see in Scripture that the Lord Jesus will come—so far I go, and take my stand—that he will come personally to reign upon t... Read More

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ETERNAL LIFE

Eternal life commences here; it begins in the believer as soon as he is born again. Then he receives unto him that same life which he will have throughout eternity. 2396.25 Death does not transport believers into a new life; it simply rids us of certain impediments that hamper our true life in its u... Read More

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ETERNAL SECURITY

Wilt thou ever say again that thy God hath forsaken thee when he has graven thee upon His own palms? ME624 If he had meant to cast you away he would have done so long ago. If he wanted reasons for rejecting you he had reasons from all eternity, for he knew what you would be. No sin in you has been a... Read More

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ETERNAL VERITIES

We feel these bodies to be real when we have pain in them, and this world to be real when we are weighted with its crosses: yet the body is a poor tent, and the world a mere bubble. AP54 Children are said to be guilty of trifling! Are not ye also triflers? If it comes to an examination upon the matt... Read More

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ETERNITY

When the wheel turns, those who are lowest rise, and the highest sink. Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time. ME280 A deaf and dumb man in one of the institutions in Paris, was asked to write upon the slate his idea of God’s eternity, and he wrote the following forcible li... Read More

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EVIL

Depend upon it, if it were, on the whole, best that the devil should be killed, he would be killed; and if it had been, after all, most for God’s glory that there should be no evil, there would have been none. 2862.604 I am not so much troubled about how evil came into the world as about helping get... Read More

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EVOLUTION

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible and are so learned that they believe that the world had no Maker, and that men are only monkeys with their tails rubbed off. PP84 The age is getting worse and worse, and man, by a process of evolution, is evolving a devil. WWi136 ... Read More

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EXCUSE MAKING

Some men attempt to excuse their own negligence by blaming the times. What have you and I to do with the times, except to serve our God in them? AM71 Beware of aptness in making an excuse. BA22 The first sin which came into the world hardened man’s heart in a most terrific manner, so that he dared t... Read More

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