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

FRIENDS, CHOICE OF

Depend upon it, a great deal depends upon whom we choose for our companions when we begin life. CC121 It is true I may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave my cloak than lose my character; it is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative upon me to be p... Read More

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FRIENDSHIP

The vanity of all friendship which is not found in true principle, was never more plainly expressed than in an honest, but heartless, sentence of one of Horace Walpole’s letters. “If one of my friends happens to die, I drive down to St. Jame’s Coffee-house, and bring home a new one.” The name of “fr... Read More

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FRIENDSHIP -WITH GOD

Faith is to credit contradictions, and to believe impossibilities, when Jehovah’s word is to the front. If you and I can do this, then we can enter into friendship with God, but not else; for distrust is the death of friendship. 1962.272... Read More

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FRUGALITY

Economy is half the battle in life; it is not so hard to earn money as it is to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. PT79 Men do not become rich by what they get, but by what they save. PT110 Some buy things they don’t want, because they are great ba... Read More

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FRUIT BEARING

The absence of positive fruit was that which condemned the lost. “Every tree,” says John, “that beareth not fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire.” He does not say, “Every tree that bears bitter fruit, or sour grapes,” but “Every tree that bringeth forth no fruit.” Fruitless professors, tr... Read More

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FULFILLMENT

The man who has a God also has the explanation of a great many things which puzzle other people, and he has something better still, for he has his God to fall back upon when he cannot explain anything. 2396.30... Read More

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FUTURE, THE

Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future must, after all, be the grand object of the eye of faith. Looking into the future we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death destroyed, the soul made perfect, and fit to be a partaker of the inheritanc... Read More

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GAMBLING

A young gambler is sure to be an old beggar if he lives long enough. PT112 I can never look upon dice except with abhorrence. If you ask me why; I reply,— Because the soldiers at the foot of the cross threw dice for my Saviour’s garments, and I have never heard the rattling of dice but I have conjur... Read More

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GAP THEORY

I will not venture upon any dogmatic theory of geology, but there seems to be every probability that this world has been fitted up and destroyed, refitted and then destroyed again, many times before the last arranging of it for the habitation of men. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the ... Read More

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GIFTS

There is no person without a talent of some sort or other, no one without some form of power either given by nature or acquired by education. We are all endowed in some degree or other, and we must each one give an account for that talent. WE50... Read More

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GIVING

Those who are poor in pocket, if rich in faith, will be accepted none the less because their gifts are small; but, poor reader, do you give in fair proportion to the Lord, or is the widow’s mite kept back from the sacred treasury? ME289 Honesty first, and then generosity. PT83 He who tries to cheat ... Read More

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GIVING -GRUDGING

Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations, and call such saving good economy; little do they dream that they are thus impoverishing themselves. ME600 If we are grateful to God, we shall feel that the first thing to do is to give of our substance an offering o... Read More

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GLUTTONY

Next, common things may be defiled by an excess in the use of them. This may be done by gluttony. What a defilement it is of bread, the staff of life, and of those comforts which God gives to us for food, when a man makes his own belly into a god, whose temple is his kitchen. 2495.591 We may by exce... Read More

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GOD

It is taken for granted by all theologians that God can neither suffer nor feel. There is no such thing in the Word of God. TN19 It was said that order is heaven’s first law; surely variety is the second; for in all God’s works, there is the most beautiful diversity. 175.82 The finite mind of man ca... Read More

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GOD -BENEFICENCE OF

He is a sun ever-shining; He is manna always falling round the camp; He is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from His smitten side; the rain of His grace is always dropping; the river of His bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing. ME274... Read More

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GOD -CONDESCENSION OF

Sinners, when God stoops, will you not stoop? When from the highest heaven he seeks you, will you not seek him? 665.704 O think, that he who was master of all heaven’s majesty came down to be the victim of all man’s misery! 1239.345 Our degrees and ranks are only shades of littleness; that is all. W... Read More

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GOD -CONSISTENCY OF

Among the unrevealed things there cannot be anything in conflict with the revealed things; none of the secrets can possibly contradict those truths which God has seen fit to unfold. 1117.337... Read More

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GOD -DISTORTION OF

As long as a man thinks that God is as bad as he himself is, he will never repent of his sin. It is often the holiness of God that breaks men down under a sense of their own guilt. This mistaken idea of the character of God also prevents the exercise of faith, for a man cannot have faith in one whos... Read More

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GOD -FATHERHOOD OF

It is easy for the dear lips of redeeming love to put away the child’s offences, since he has already obtained pardon for the criminal’s iniquities. If with his heart’s blood he won our pardon from our Judge, he can easily enough bring us the forgiveness of our Father. 3307.295... Read More

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GOD -GLORY OF

God’s great design in all his works is the manifestation of his own glory. Any aim less than this were unworthy of himself. He cannot act for the good of his creatures as an ultimate aim, for that were for God to be impelled by a motive less great than his own nature. Since there can be nothing grea... Read More

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