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

FEAR -OF MAN

Some of you dare not do a thing that you know to be right, because somebody might make a remark about it. What are you but slaves? 2888.297... Read More

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FEDERAL HEADSHIP

Adam was our federal head; he represented us; and when he sinned, we sinned representatively in him, and what he did was imputed to us. You say that you never agreed to the imputation. Nay, but I would not have you say thus, for as by representation we fell, it is by the representative system that w... Read More

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FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus—humility, happiness, and holiness. ME266 Tell me who they are that sit oftenest under the banner of His love, and drink deepest draughts from the cup of communion, and I am sure they will be those who give most, who serve best, and who abide clos... Read More

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FELLOWSHIP WITH THE SAINTS

The converse of saints on earth should be a rehearsal of their everlasting communion in heaven. TN156 In walking, friends become communicative—one tells his trouble, and the other tries to console him under it, and then imparts to him his own secret in return. When persons are constantly in the habi... Read More

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FINANCIAL SPECULATION

He pulls at a long rope who waits for another’s death; he who hunts after legacies had need have iron shoes. PT106 Once in a while one man in a million may stumble against a fortune, but thousands ruin themselves by idle expectations. Expect to get half of what you earn, a quarter of what is your du... Read More

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FLATTERY

I notice that if I am at all pleased with the praise of a friend, I become in that degree open to be grieved by the censure of a foe. GS123 I wonder how old a man would be when he would be too old to love flattery. GS166 To live upon the praises of others is to feed on the air; for what is praise bu... Read More

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FLEXIBILITY

Mark you, there never was a man more stern for principle than Paul; in things where it was necessary to take his stand he was firm as a rock, but in merely personal and external matters he was the servant of all. 1170.248... Read More

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FLOOD, THE

The destruction caused by the deluge was universal. It did not merely sweep away some who were out of the ark, but it swept them all away. 823.421 It all hinges on this one matter, inside or outside the ark: inside the ark a thousand imperfections, but all saved; outside the ark a thousand excellenc... Read More

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FOLLOWSHIP

We must be all conscious that we imitate those whom we admire. Love has a strange influence over our nature, to mould it into the form beloved. 1248.448 Men, if they outstrip their leaders, generally do so in the wrong direction. They seldom exaggerate their virtues, those they frequently omit, but ... Read More

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FOOD

If we went out into the field and gathered food which dropped down direct from the skies we should think it a great miracle to admire and wonder at; but is it not quite as great a marvel that our bread should come up from the earth as that it should come down from the sky? The same God who bade the ... Read More

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FOOLS and FOOLISHNESS

The young men are wonderfully bright and intelligent, and the old people are a good deal behind them. Yes, yes; that is the way we talk before our beards have grown. GS48 He is the greatest fool of all who pretends to explain everything, and says he will not believe what he cannot understand. PP142 ... Read More

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FOREBEARANCE

If we would follow peace we must gird our loins with the girdle of forebearance; we must resolve that as we will not give offence, so neither will we take offence, or if offence be felt we must resolve to forgive. 940.389 Personally, I tax your forebearance to put up with me; and I need not say that... Read More

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FORGETFULNESS

Hard hearts and painful unbeliefs spring up in the waste places where we bury our forgotten mercies. 1218.97 Our second remark is a very commonplace one, you have heard it a thousand times—we seldom value our mercies till we lose them. We best appreciate their excellence when we have to deplore thei... Read More

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FORGIVENESS OF OTHERS

Who has not, under temporary irritation, said that of another which he afterwards regretted? It is the part of the generous to treat passionate words as if they had never been uttered. 2LS163 Learn to disbelieve those who have no faith in their brethren. Suspect those who would lead you to suspect o... Read More

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FORMALISM

Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend to religion at all, it is either that they may gain thereby, or else because they dare not do otherwise. ME332 If you have a religi... Read More

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FREE AGENCY

They who think that predestination and the fulfilment of the divine purpose is contrary to the free-agency of man, know not what they say, nor whereof they affirm. It were no miracle for God to effect his own purpose, if he were dealing with stocks and stones, with granite and with trees; but this i... Read More

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FREE WILL

When we shall see the dead rise from the grave by their own power, then may we expect to see ungodly sinners of their own free will turning to Christ. ME505 Despite all the doctrines which proud free-will has manufactured, there has never been found from Adam’s day until now a single instance in whi... Read More

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FREEDOM, POLITICAL

Political slavery is an intolerable evil. To live, to think, to act, to speak, at the permission of another! Better have no life at all! To depend for my existence upon a despot’s will is death itself. Craven spirits may wear the dog-collar which their master puts upon them, and fawn at his feet for... Read More

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FREEDOM, SPIRITUAL

O what a “freedom” is thine! freedom from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven! ME526 The liberty of the man of the world is liberty to commit evil without restraint; the liberty of a child of God is to walk in holiness without hi... Read More

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FRIENDS, BAD

Besides, bad company does a man real harm, for, as the old proverb has it, if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas. PP103 People whom we esteem, but whom the Lord does not esteem, are a great snare. It is very perilous to love those who love not God. He shall not be my bosom friend who ... Read More

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