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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CHURCH -CHOICE OF

There are some who do not like close dealings, though that seems to me to be the very ministry every Christian ought to prefer, a heart-searching, rein-trying ministry. 825.451 When you get cold in heart, you find it inconvenient to come so far, and you go to a fashionable place of worship, where yo... Read More

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CHURCH -CHRIST’S LOVE FOR

The elect church is the favourite of heaven, the treasure of Christ, the crown of His head, the bracelet of His arm, the breastplate of His heart, the very centre and core of His love. ME161 On earth he exercises towards her all the affectionate offices of Husband. He makes rich provision for her wa... Read More

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CHURCH -COMFORT

See him on his knees: he talks with God; he pours out his heart before the Lord; and in return—whether the world chooses to believe it or not, it is a matter of fact with us—in return the great Invisible Spirit pours into the praying heart a stream of sacred comfort, stays it in its time of trouble,... Read More

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CHURCH -DENOMINATIONS

There are denominations enough. If there were a new denomination formed the thieves and robbers who have entered other “gardens walled round” would climb into this also, and so nothing would be gained. DG36 There is nothing in Scripture which says, “Endeavouring to keep up your ecclesiastical arrang... Read More

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CHURCH -DOCTRINE

The church would be one with itself if it were one with the truth. 1431.485 Some think it a great thing to be members of a popular sect, but when the great curtain rolls up, and all things are seen as they are, and not as they seem, do you not think that the church will be most commended which was t... Read More

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CHURCH -GROWTH

The increase of the kingdom is more to be desired than the growth of a clan. SW12 The church needs young blood in its veins. Our strength for holding the faith may lie in experienced saints but our zeal for propagating it must be found in the young. 1437.562 The only multiplication of the Church of ... Read More

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CHURCH -HOPPERS

By the way, looking round here, I think I know some of the persons present who belong to neighbouring chapels. What business have you here? Why did you leave your own minister? If I see one come into my place from the congregation of another brother in the ministry, I would like to give him just a f... Read More

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CHURCH -INDEPENDENT

In the isolation of independency, tempered by the love of the Spirit which binds us to all the faithful in Christ Jesus, we think the lovers of the gospel will for the present find their immediate safety. DG36 Now-a-days people get a queer notion in their head, and they form what they call a denomin... Read More

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CHURCH -INFLUENCE OF

An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church. ME357 In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will i... Read More

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CHURCH -MEMBERSHIP

Will you follow the wicked policy of separating your own personal interests from those of your Redeemer and his church? If so your ship is wrecked before it leaves the harbour. You are no child of God if this principle holds the mastery over you. Your salvation lies not in your separation from Chris... Read More

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CHURCH -OFFICERS

But no man is put in any office in the church that he may be merely ornamental. We are set in our places with an end and design, every man according to his charge— every woman according to her charge. My dear brother, you do not occupy the post of a minister or a pastor that you may be respected, bu... Read More

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CHURCH -PERPETUITY OF

The vessel of the church can never be wrecked; she rocks and reels in the mad tempest, but she is sound from stem to stern, and her Pilot steers her with a hand omnipotently wise. Her bow is in the wave, but she divides the sea, and shakes off the mountainous billows as a lion shakes the dew from of... Read More

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CHURCH -PLANTING

Many a man collects people together, and yet he has not the fashioning of them. He is the founder of a Christian congregation; but he does not live to see many conversions. He gets together the raw material upon which another shall work. He ploughs and he sows; but it wants another man to come and w... Read More

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CHURCH -POLITY

To our minds, the Scripture seems very explicit as to how this Church should be ordered. We believe that every Church member should have equal rights and privileges; that there is no power in Church officers to execute anything unless they have the full authorisation of the members of the Church. We... Read More

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CHURCH -PRIMACY OF

Christian labours, disconnected from the church, are like sowing and reaping without having any barn in which to store the fruits of the harvest; they are useful but incomplete. AM101 You know how heartily I rejoice in the preaching of Christ anywhere. But there is a lack in all this labour; the cor... Read More

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CHURCH -PROBLEMS

Oh, that all churches were abodes of love! What do we see in many places? No contending earnestly for the faith, but much contending as to who shall be the greatest. I heard, the other day, of a church which has come to nothing, and one told me that the reason was that “everybody wanted to be boss.”... Read More

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CHURCH -PURITY

Do what we may, Judas will come in; but let us not invite him: let us not make it easy for a betrayer of Christ to be comfortable with us. AM311 To introduce unconverted persons to the church is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss. SW13 Some of the most glarin... Read More

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CHURCH -PURPOSE OF

The church is not formed to be a social club, to produce society for itself; not to be a political association, to be a power in politics; not even to be a religious confederacy, promoting its own opinions: it is a body created of the Lord to answer His own ends and purposes, and it exists for nothi... Read More

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CHURCH -SIZE

A church may have a very short muster-roll, and yet it may be very dear to God, who thinks more of quality than of quantity, more of obedience than of numbers. 1814.673 Where would have been our flourishing churches of today if our forefathers had disdained to sustain them while they were yet in the... Read More

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CHURCH -UNIVERSAL

The church has lost nothing—she has only seen one of her valiant captains pass through the flood to join the triumphal band upon the other side; but as surely as the church is one, she loses none of her members—as certainly as it is the same church triumphant and militant, so certain is it that Chri... Read More

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