The Best Charles Spurgeon quotes

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it. — Charles Spurgeon

The goal of prayer is the ear of God. — Charles Spurgeon

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the safest method of replying to a word of hatred. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. — Charles Spurgeon

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the best response to hatred. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence. — Charles Spurgeon

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties. — Charles Spurgeon

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth–place of all evil. — Charles Spurgeon

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial. — Charles Spurgeon

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. — Charles Spurgeon

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. — Charles Spurgeon

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials. — Charles Spurgeon

We may explain faith till nobody understands it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience. — Charles Spurgeon

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also. — Charles Spurgeon

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is as precious to die by as to live by. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument)–it is Christ’s blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark–that is faith. — Charles Spurgeon

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not. — Charles Spurgeon

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is. — Charles Spurgeon

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the thermometer of grace. — Charles Spurgeon

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song. — Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. — Charles Spurgeon

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing. — Charles Spurgeon

Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel! — Charles Spurgeon

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin. — Charles Spurgeon

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace. — Charles Spurgeon

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace. — Charles Spurgeon

They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy law. — Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one–half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain. — Charles Spurgeon

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing. — Charles Spurgeon

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. — Charles Spurgeon

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart. — Charles Spurgeon

Surely if men’s hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon

Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God’s heart. — Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart. — Charles Spurgeon

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

The bruised Savior–is the healing of bruised hearts. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God. — Charles Spurgeon

God has so made man’s heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart. — Charles Spurgeon

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation. — Charles Spurgeon

If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, ‘My God’. — Charles Spurgeon

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it. — Charles Spurgeon

Get away to your God, O Christian! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. — Charles Spurgeon

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. — Charles Spurgeon

Fiery trials make golden Christians. — Charles Spurgeon

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled. — Charles Spurgeon

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model. — Charles Spurgeon

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave. — Charles Spurgeon

Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little. — Charles Spurgeon

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man. — Charles Spurgeon

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace. — Charles Spurgeon

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ. — Charles Spurgeon

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. — Charles Spurgeon

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ’s parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. — Charles Spurgeon

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them. — Charles Spurgeon

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ’s love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him? — Charles Spurgeon

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God. — Charles Spurgeon

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened. — Charles Spurgeon

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. — Charles Spurgeon

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love. — Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love. — Charles Spurgeon

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence. — Charles Spurgeon

Wean our heart from every creature Thee to love and Thee alone. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus’ bosom. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love. — Charles Spurgeon

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved. — Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins. — Charles Spurgeon

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me. — Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. — Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost. — Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you. — 1893

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don’t have to defend it–just let it out of the cage. — Charles Spurgeon

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description. — Charles Spurgeon

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. — Charles Spurgeon

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic. — Charles Spurgeon

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel. — Charles Spurgeon

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself. — Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made. — Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth. — Charles Spurgeon

If the Lord’s bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. — Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. — Charles Spurgeon

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. — Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving. — Charles Spurgeon

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded. — Charles Spurgeon

The Christian’s life should be one of thankfulness to God. — Charles Spurgeon

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own. — Charles Spurgeon

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life. — Charles Spurgeon

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end. — Charles Spurgeon

A father’s holy life is a rich legacy for his sons. — Charles Spurgeon

The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet. — Charles Spurgeon

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died. — Charles Spurgeon

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. — Charles Spurgeon

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death. — Charles Spurgeon

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart. — Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry. — Charles Spurgeon

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. — Charles Spurgeon

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world’s favour or gain. — Charles Spurgeon

If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life–long act. — Charles Spurgeon

You need not to know much about Heaven–it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us. — Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven. — Charles Spurgeon

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself. — Charles Spurgeon

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell. — Charles Spurgeon

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me. — Charles Spurgeon

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many. — Charles Spurgeon

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table. — Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears. — Charles Spurgeon

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. — Charles Spurgeon

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God. — Charles Spurgeon

There are no crown–bearers in heaven that were not cross–bearers here below. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To pray is to mount on eagle’s wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth. — Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven. — Charles Spurgeon

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up… When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. — Charles Spurgeon