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

GUILT

When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing His cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true cause for grief—cause lying deeper than those mourning women thought. They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meek... Read More

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GUILT -ADMISSION OF

You must plead “Guilty,” or remain guilty for ever. 641.414 There is mercy for a sinner, but there is no mercy for the man who will not own himself a sinner. 1456.62... Read More

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HABITS

Habits soon become a second nature; to form new ones is hard work; but those formed in youth remain in old age. CC121 In other things “familiarity breeds contempt,” but in the things of God familiarity breeds adoration. The man who does not read his Bible much is the man who has a scant esteem of it... Read More

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HAPPINESS

Seek not happiness first; seek Christ first, and happiness shall come after. 196.255 Nothing beneath the skies, and nothing above the skies, can make any man happy apart from God, search as you will. Apart from God you may make a hell, but you cannot make a heaven, do what you please. 1305.419 Unles... Read More

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HATRED OF GOD

Man sins although he stands on the brink of the grave. It is not enough that the halter is about the traitor’s neck, he commits fresh treasons while standing beneath the gallows; he knows that his doom is recorded, and that his life is only a reprieve, and yet he insults the judge. 699.375 He hates ... Read More

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HEARING

When a congregation expects nothing, it generally finds nothing even in the best of preachers; but when they are prepared to make much of what they hear, they usually get what they came for. AM355 But, we add, men ought not to hear without preparation. Which, think you, needs the most preparation, t... Read More

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HEART, THE

True religion is heart-work. We may wash the outside of the cup and the platter as long as we please, but if the inward parts be filthy, we are filthy altogether in the sight of God, for our hearts are more truly ourselves than our hands are; the very life of our being lies in the inner nature, and ... Read More

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HEAVEN

Thy head may be crowned with thorny troubles now, but it shall wear a starry crown ere long; thy hand may be filled with cares—it shall sweep the strings of the harp of heaven soon. ME268 In heaven they marry not, but are as the angels of God; yet there is this one marvellous exception to the rule, ... Read More

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HEAVEN -ACTIVITY IN

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him; but he hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit,” and, as far as we understand that revelation we are taught by it that we shall enter into a state of complete res... Read More

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HEAVEN -CONDITIONS IN

At present the saints who are with Jesus are without their bodies, and are pure spirits; their humanity is in that respect maimed; only half their manhood is with Jesus; yet even for that half of the manhood to be with Christ is far better than for the whole of their being to be here in the best pos... Read More

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HEAVEN -DEPARTURE FOR

I remember standing in the pulpit, one sultry summer’s afternoon, preaching of the joys of heaven, and there was one woman’s eye, that specially caught mine as I was preaching. I knew not why it was, but it seemed to fascinate me; and as I spoke of heaven, she seemed to drink in every word, and her ... Read More

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HEAVEN -HOLINESS AND

What, carry your sins into heaven? Carry hell into heaven! Man, hast thou any reason left in thee to expect God to have it so? 1278.92 It is a mercy that unrenewed men cannot enter heaven; if they could, heaven would not last as heaven for even five minutes. There would be another hell created if un... Read More

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HEAVEN -PREPARATION FOR

An old Scotchman was asked whether he expected to get to heaven. “Why, man, I live there,” was his quaint reply. Let us all live in those spiritual things which are the essential features of heaven. Often go there, before you go to stay there. It was said of an old Puritan, that heaven was in him be... Read More

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HEAVEN -RECOGNITION IN

I believe that heaven is a fellowship of the saints, and that we shall know one another there. 40.302 Some have doubted whether there will be recognition in heaven; there is no room for doubt, for it is called “my Father’s house;” and shall not the family be known to each other? We are to “sit down ... Read More

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HELL

You and I can never imagine all the depths of hell. Shut out from us by a black veil of darkness, we cannot tell the horrors of that dismal dungeon of lost souls. Happily, the wailings of the damned have never startled us, for a thousand tempests were but a maiden’s whisper, compared with one wail o... Read More

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HELL -DISBELIEF OF

No human ministry ever gave such graphic and harrowing descriptions of hell as Christ has given. You say you believe the words of Jesus; you do not suspect a loving Saviour of exaggeration. Oh, my hearers, I ask you now in the name of God, if it be true, why do ye not believe it? You do not believe ... Read More

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HELL -DURATION OF

Suffice it for me to close up by saying, that the hell of hells will be to thee poor sinner, the thought, that it is to be for ever. Thou wilt look up there on the throne of God, and it shall be written “for ever!” When the damned jingle the burning irons of their torments, they shall say, “for ever... Read More

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HELL -FIRES OF

He speaks of the “fire that never shall be quenched.” Now, do not begin telling me that that is metaphorical fire: who cares for that? If a man were to threaten to give me a metaphorical blow on the head, I should care very little about it; he would be welcome to give me as many as he pleased. And w... Read More

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HELL -JESTING ABOUT

Sinners in hell are not the fools they were on earth; in hell they do not laugh at everlasting burnings; in the pit they do not despise the words, “eternal fire.” The worm that never dieth, when it is gnawing, gnaws out all joke and laughter; you may despise God now, and despise me now for what I sa... Read More

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HELL -PREACHING ON

Our dear Redeemer, whose lips are as lilies dropping sweet-smelling myrrh, in great tenderness of heart warned men of the sure result of their sins; and none used stronger or more alarming language than he did concerning the future of ungodly men. He knew nothing of that pretended sympathy which wil... Read More

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