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

CHURCH -WORLDLINESS IN

It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the Sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in. ME467 Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a li... Read More

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COMMITTEES

While Committees waste their time over resolutions, do something. While Societies and Unions are making constitutions, let us win souls. Too often we discuss, and discuss, and discuss, while Satan only laughs in his sleeve. It is time we had done planning, and sought something to plan. AM55 One marv... Read More

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COMPARISON

We accuse others to excuse ourselves. We are such fools as to dream that we are better because others are worse, and we talk as if we could get up by pulling others down. PP15 Dear friend, why compare yourself with the dwarfs around you? If you must compare yourself with your fellow men, look at the... Read More

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COMPASSION

It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to hell. They know the evil of sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like moths into its blaze. ME615 The thought that we may ourselves be one day under the window should make us careful when we are throwing... Read More

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COMPLAINING

A heavy waggon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen. The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen turning around thus addressed the wheels:—“Halloa, there! why do you make so much noise? we bear all the labour, and we, not you, ought to cry out!” Those complain firs... Read More

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COMPROMISE

As is usual with people on an incline, some who got on “the down grade” went further than they intended, showing that it is easier to get on than to get off, and that where there is no brake it is very difficult to stop. DG6 It is exceedingly difficult in these times to preserve one’s fidelity befor... Read More

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COMPROMISERS

These are mere chips in the porridge, neither souring nor sweetening: they give forth no flavour, but they take the flavour of that which surrounds them; they are the creatures of circumstances, not helms-men who avail themselves of stream and tide, but mere drift-wood carried along by any and every... Read More

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CONCENTRATION

All great lives have been under the constraint of some mastering principle. A man who is everything by turns and nothing long is a nobody: a man who wastes life on whims and fancies, leisures and pleasures, never achieves anything: he flits over the surface of life and leaves no more trace upon his ... Read More

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CONCLUSIONS, INCORRECT

The famous naturalist, Buffon, had once a large number of the wise men of the Academy of France in his grounds. They were all philosophers; and you know what a philosopher is. If you do not know, you should meet one: and I do not think that your appreciation of the sect will be increased. However, t... Read More

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CONDEMNATION

Men by their sins have forfeited all claim upon God; they deserve to perish for their sins—and if they all do so, they have no ground for complaint. ME661 When God asks, “Where art thou?” man must be lost. TN13 We are said by common talk to be in a state of probation, but that is not true: we are al... Read More

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CONDESCENSION TO OTHERS

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves! 2551.13... Read More

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CONFIDENCE

It seems now that if trials and troubles should come, if I could but hold my hand upon this precious text, I would laugh at them all. “Who can turn him?”—I would shout—“Who can turn him?” Come on, earth and hell; come on, for “who can turn him?” Come on, ye boisterous troubles, come on, ye innumerab... Read More

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CONFIDENCES

Beware of trusting all your secrets with anybody but your wife. PP118 Commit all your secrets to no man; trust in God with all your heart, but let your confidence in friends be weighed in the balances of prudence, seeing that men are but men, and all men are frail. Trust not great weights to slender... Read More

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CONFRONTATION

The Holy Spirit, however, permits us to censure sin, and prescribes the way in which we are to do it. It must be done by rebuking our brother to his face, not by railing behind his back. ME668... Read More

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CONFUSION

We are all by nature in such a mixed up state that we need not wonder at any strange statement or feeling. When you hear brethren assert that a person who is not assured that he believes must necessarily be an unbeliever, you may say to yourself, “That friend does not know everything.” There is no e... Read More

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CONSCIENCE

Do you imagine that if men’s consciences always spoke loudly and clearly to them, they would live in the daily commission of acts, which are as opposed to the right as darkness to light? No, beloved; conscience can tell me that I am a sinner, but conscience cannot make me feel that I am one. Conscie... Read More

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CONSCIENCE - EVIL

A gash in the conscience may disfigure a soul for ever. BA14 A guilty conscience is the undying worm of hell; the torture of remorse is the fire that never can be quenched: he that hath that worm gnawing at his heart and that fire burning in his bosom is lost already. GS41 We have heard of a man say... Read More

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CONSCIENCE -GOOD

A quiet conscience is a little heaven. BA15 Should it happen that, in the providence of God, you are a loser by conscience, you shall find that if the Lord pays you not back in the silver of earthly prosperity, He will discharge His promise in the gold of spiritual joy. ME353 He who wraps a threadba... Read More

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CONSECRATION

Give your second best never. AM393 Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, “Ready for either.” ME14 Jesus gave both his hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from His blessed work? ME529 You must have no ... Read More

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CONSENSUS

The grandest majority in the world is a minority of one when that man is on God’s side. Count heads, do you? Well, count by the millions if you like, but I shall rather weigh than count; and if I speak the truth of God, I have more weight on my side than can be found in a million who believe not. 14... Read More

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