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.

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JESUS CHRIST -MEDIATORIAL WORK OF

There cannot be any point of contact between absolute deity and fallen humanity except through Jesus Christ, the appointed Mediator. That is God’s door: all else is a wall of fire. You can by Christ approach the Lord, but this is the sole bridge across the gulf. 1456.67... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -NAME OF

We write his name upon our banner, for it is hell’s terror, heaven’s delight and earth’s hope. 1388.688 Bernard has delightfully said that the name of Jesus is honey in the mouth, melody in the ear, and joy in the heart. 1434.517... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -PRAYERS OF

We little know what we owe to our Saviour’s prayers. ME23 If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He! ME635 Heaven and earth in midnight stillness heard the groans and sighs of the mysterious Being... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -PREACHING

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception and a crime in execution. 1625.598... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -PRECIOUSNESS OF

Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as heaven and earth cannot excel. ME605 I like what was said by a child in the Sunday-school, when the teacher said, “You have been reading that Christ is precious: what does that mean?” The children stayed a lit... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -PUTTING AWAY SIN

Christ has not cast his people’s sins into the shallows, where they may be washed up again, but he has cast them into the depths of the sea, where they are drowned for ever. 661.658 In the end of the world Christ was revealed to put away sin. He did not come into the world to palliate it merely, or ... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -SAVIOUR

If Christ is not all to you he is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If he be something he must be everything, and if he be not everything he is nothing to you. 1006.459 It is true that Jesus saves his people from their sins—earth knows it, hell howls at it, ... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH OF

Our Lord Jesus is His people’s representative. When He died for them, they had rest; when he rose again for them, they had liberty; when He sat down at His Father’s right hand, they had favour, and honour, and dignity. ME225 Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, and yet wit... Read More

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JESUS CHRIST -SUFFERINGS OF

“As the lily among thorns” wears also another meaning. Dr. Thompson writes of a certain lily, “It grows among thorns, and I have sadly lacerated my hands in extricating it from them. Nothing can be in higher contrast than the luxuriant, velvety softness of this lily, and the withered, tangled hedge ... Read More

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JUDGING

There is a sense in which we are not to judge men; but there is another sense in which he would be an arrant fool who did not constantly exercise his judgment upon men. 774.555... Read More

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JUDGMENT

Justice may at times leave the courts of man, but it abides upon the tribunal of God. TD103:6 Where judgment finds thee, there eternity shall leave thee. 191.216 Men whine out their abhorrence of God’s justice, and scout the idea of future punishment with the question, “Would a father do thus and th... Read More

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JUSTIFICATION

Sometimes we cannot see the light, but God always sees the light, and that is much better than our seeing it. Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. ME11 Are they who stand before the throne of God justified now?—so are we, as truly and as clearly justified as they w... Read More

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KINDNESS

We are bound to be just and right towards all men as men, whatever their religious convictions, or irreligious notions. Injustice is no friend to truth. We must not fight God’s battles with the weapons of ill-will. For us to hate those who are in error, or talk of them with contempt or wish them ill... Read More

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KNOWLEDGE

Wise men know their own ignorance and are ever ready to learn. Humility is the child of knowledge. Michael Angelo was found by the Cardinal Farnese walking in solitude amid the ruins of the Coliseum, and when he expressed his surprise, the great artist answered, “I go yet to school that I may contin... Read More

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LABOR

Work is always healthier for us than idleness; it is always better to wear out shoes than sheets. PP128 There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had. PT142 God sends every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest: he ... Read More

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LABOR -PATIENCE IN

Immediate fruit may come, for God worketh marvellously, but whether it does or not, your plain duty is to sow. Reap you shall, but meanwhile you must be satisfied to go on sowing, sowing, sowing, even to the end. Reaping is your reward, but sowing is your work. WCo93... Read More

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LAW, THE

The law of God is no more than God might most righteously ask of us. If God were about to give us a more tolerant law, it would be an admission on his part that he asked too much at first. Can that be supposed? 1660.283 Once more: the entrance of the law makes the offence to abound in this sense, th... Read More

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LAWYERS

Little is got by law, but much is lost by it. PP85 Don’t go to law unless you have nothing to lose: lawyers’ houses are built on fools’ heads. PT56 I would much rather not fall into the jaws of a crocodile or the hands of a lawyer: the only suit that lasts too long is a lawsuit, and that would not s... Read More

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LAZINESS

I wonder whether we shall ever have a day such as the bees celebrate in its due season. You may, perhaps, have seen them dismissing the unproductives. It is a remarkable sight. They say to themselves, “Here are a lot of drones eating our honey, but never making any; let us turn them out.” There is a... Read More

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LEGACY

Here is a good searching question for a man to ask himself as he reviews his past life:—Have I written in the snow? Will my life-work endure the lapse of years and the fret of change? Has there been anything immortal in it, which will survive the speedy wreck of all sublunary things? The boys inscri... Read More

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