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

EXILE

There is a sense in which, so long as we are here, we are absent from the Lord; and one great saint used to say upon his birthday that he had been so many years in banishment from the Lord: to abide in this lowland country, so far from the ivory palaces, is a banishment at the very best. 1136.571 I ... Read More

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EXPECTATIONS -OF PEOPLE

Blessed is he who expects nothing of poor flesh and blood, for he shall never be disappointed. PT66... Read More

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EXTRATERRESTRIALS

There may be as many other worlds and sorts of beings existent as there are sands upon the sea shore, for aught we know; and the Lord may have been occupied in ages past with ten thousand glorious plans, and economies, as yet unrevealed to man. 1265.651 It may be that there are innumerable beings, i... Read More

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EYESERVICE

What a mean and beggarly thing it is for a man only to do his work well when he is watched. Such oversight is for boys at school and mere hirelings. WCo78 Gracious minds outgrow the governance and stimulus which comes of the oversight of mortal man. God’s own Spirit dwells within us, and we serve th... Read More

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FAILURE

I hope that those who are always thinking of success as certainly involving pride, may also take to themselves the comfortable reflection that their non-success, suggesting as it may very bitter thoughts about their brethren, may also be pride only in another direction. 365.141 All human work which ... Read More

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FAITH

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them. AM330 Brethren, I believe in that which I could not have invented. I believe that which I cannot understand. I believe that which compels me to adore, and I thank God for a rock that is higher than I am. AM334 Faith obliterates... Read More

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FAITH -DEAD

Now, sirs! any kind of faith in Christ which does not change your life is the faith of devils, and will take you where devils are, but will never take you to heaven. 3390.40... Read More

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FAITH -DEFINITION OF

The old writers, who are by far the most sensible—for you will notice that the books that were written about two hundred years ago, by the old Puritans, have more sense in one line than there is in a page of our new books, and more in a page than there is in a whole volume of our modern divinity—the... Read More

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FAITH -OBJECT OF

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. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen. ME538 The world hangs on nothing; but faith cannot hang upon itself, it must hang on Chri... Read More

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FAITH -SAVING

FAILURE* read more quotes relating to emotional issues I hope that those who are always thinking of success as certainly involving pride, may also take to themselves the comfortable reflection that their non-success, suggesting as it may very bitter thoughts about their brethren, may also be pride o... Read More

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FAITH -WEAK

If thou hast weak faith, thou wilt have broken joys and many discomforts. 2173.618... Read More

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FAITHFULNESS

Be faithful every day that you may be faithful to the end. Let not your life be like a tangled mass of yarn, but keep it ever in due order on the distaff, so that, whenever the fatal knife shall cut the thread, it may end just where an enlightened judgment would have wished. PM230 You have had but l... Read More

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FALL, THE

My brethren, when man fell in the garden, manhood fell entirely; there was not one single pillar in the temple of manhood that stood erect. 182.140 The very garments that you wear show that you have discovered your shame. The daily labours which weary you prove that you are not in paradise. The very... Read More

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FALSE PROFESSORS

Every grace can be counterfeited, even as jewels can be imitated. AP3 A boy in the streets, selling mince-pies, kept crying, “Hot mince-pies!” A person bought one of them, and found it quite cold. “Boy,” said he, “why do you call these pies hot?” “That’s the name they go by, sir,” said the boy. So t... Read More

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FALSE PROPHETS

I can conceive no surer method of prejudicing men against the truth than by sounding her praises through the lips of men of suspicious character. When the devil turned preacher in the Lord’s day, the Master bade him hold his peace; he did not care for Satanic praises. It is very ridiculous to hear g... Read More

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FAME

Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. ME280 Gain and fame are only so much foam of the sea. All the wealth and honour the whole world can afford would be too slender a thread to bear up the happiness of an immortal soul. TD62:10 Fame is not an imparti... Read More

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FASTING

If we only ate about half what is ordinarily eaten, we should probably all of us be in better health; and if, occasionally, we put ourselves on short commons, not because there is any virtue in that, but in order to get our brains more clear, and to help our hearts to rest more fully upon the Saviou... Read More

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FATALISM

I hear one say, “Well, sir, you seem to be a fatalist!” No, far from it. There is just this difference between fate and providence. Fate is blind; providence has eyes. Fate is blind, a thing that must be; it is just an arrow shot from a bow, that must fly onward, but hath no target. Not so, providen... Read More

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FEAR

Unless the Lord has judged our fears to be a great evil, He would not so often have forbidden them, or have provided such a heavenly quietus for them. WC132 Permit me to say there is nothing in the Bible to make any man fear who puts his trust in Jesus. Nothing in the Bible, did I say? There is noth... Read More

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FEAR -OF GOD

Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy. ME227 The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all othe... Read More

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