Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.
– Charles Spurgeon
God
It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon
Contentment | Happiness
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
– Charles Spurgeon
Adversity | Trials
Without Christ there is no hope.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christ | Hope
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
– Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge | Wisdom | Foolishness
Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way yourself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Examples
Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.
– Charles Spurgeon
Evangelism | Missions
I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christ
In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
– Charles Spurgeon
Giving
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children
To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.
– Charles Spurgeon
Evangelism
If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hell
Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it creates hesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. “Believe!” is the word which speaks life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin.
– Charles Spurgeon
Doubt
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
– Charles Spurgeon
Affliction
Prayer can never be in excess.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
– Charles Spurgeon
Contentment
Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.
– Charles Spurgeon
Fellowship | Unity
Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living – that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.
– Charles Spurgeon
Death | Life
Prayer is not a hard requirement – it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer
It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man.
– Charles Spurgeon
Theology | Salvation
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
– Charles Spurgeon
Nature | Praise
Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
– Charles Spurgeon
Discernment
Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.
– Charles Spurgeon
Jesus | Christmas
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.
– Charles Spurgeon
Praise
We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christmas
I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.
– Charles Spurgeon
Doctrine | Grace
If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
– Charles Spurgeon
Truth | Lying
I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer | Intercession
It is a very remarkable fact that no inspired preacher of whom we have any record ever uttered such terrible words concerning the destiny of the lost as our Lord Jesus Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hell
Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.
– Charles Spurgeon
Rest
Do not say, “I cannot help having a bad temper.” Friend, you must help it. Pray to God to help you overcome it at once, for either you must kill it, or it will kill you. You cannot carry a bad temper into heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon
Anger
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
– Charles Spurgeon
Giving | Blessings
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
– Charles Spurgeon
Encouragement
You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Heart
Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hell
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.
– Charles Spurgeon
Compromise
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of Death smiting our best beloved.
– Charles Spurgeon
Death
Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith | Service
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord’s hand.
– Charles Spurgeon
Trials
No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
– Charles Spurgeon
Intercession
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
– Charles Spurgeon
Suffering
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
– Charles Spurgeon
Peace
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
– Charles Spurgeon
Contentment
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit | Repentance
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
– Charles Spurgeon
Idleness
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Apathy | The Gospel
Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
– Charles Spurgeon
Affliction
You never hear Jesus say in Pilate’s judgment hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.
– Charles Spurgeon
Atonement | Commitment
It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
– Charles Spurgeon
Self-righteousness
The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Bible | Meditation
I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christians | Happiness
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer’s blood.
– Charles Spurgeon
Redemption
The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.
– Charles Spurgeon
Preaching
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith | Adversity | Circumstances
Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people.
– Charles Spurgeon
Fellowship
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hope | Waiting
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon
Church | Holiness | Power
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride | Judging
I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children’s socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be.
– Charles Spurgeon
Family | Home
You are saved – seek to be like your Savior.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy | Enemies
You preached well,” said a friend to John Bunyan one morning. “You are too late,” said honest John, “The devil told me that before I left the pulpit.
– Charles Spurgeon
Preaching
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
Miracles | Jesus | The Gospel
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.
– Charles Spurgeon
Church | Prayer
Take care of giving up your first zeal; beware of cooling in the least degree. Ye were hot and earnest once; be hot and earnest still, and let the fire which once burnt within you still animate you. Be ye still men of might and vigor, men who serve their God with diligence and zeal.
– Charles Spurgeon
Fire | Zeal
I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist; but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, “It is Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Religion
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Preaching | Conviction
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.
– Charles Spurgeon
Worship
A man is not far from the gates of heaven when he is fully submissive to the Lord’s will.
– Charles Spurgeon
Submission
Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.
– Charles Spurgeon
Believing
It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon
Many are poor because they rob God.
– Charles Spurgeon
Giving
I venture to say that the bulk of Christians spend more time in reading the newspaper than they do reading the Word of God.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Bible
Next to the Bible, the book that I value most is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire.
– Charles Spurgeon
Books
Remember, Christ’s scholars must study upon their knees.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer
There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God – to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith
Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!
– Charles Spurgeon
God
Giving is true having.
– Charles Spurgeon
Giving
The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body… Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
Rest
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.
– Charles Spurgeon
Preaching
When a tear is wept by you, think not your Father does not behold; for, “Like as a father pities his children so the Lord pities them that fear Him.” Your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah; your whisper can incline His ear unto you; your prayer can stay His hands; your faith can move His arm. Oh! think not that God sits on high in an eternal slumber, taking no account of you.
– Charles Spurgeon
Trials
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction.
– Charles Spurgeon
Conversion | Repentance
I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate “the pearl oyster”–A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but “cover” it with a precious substance extracted out of its own life, by which it turns the intruder into a pearl! Oh, that we could do so with the provocations we receive from our fellow Christians, so that pearls of patience, gentleness, and forgiveness might be bred within us by that which otherwise would have harmed us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Godliness
Learn this lesson: not to trust Christ because you repent, but trust Christ to make you repent; not to come to Christ because you have a broken heart, but to come to Him that He may give you a broken heart; not to come to Him because you are fit to come, but to come to Him because you are unfit to come. Your fitness is your unfitness. Your qualification is your lack of qualification.
– Charles Spurgeon
Repentance
You will never make a missionary of the person who does no good at home. He that will not serve the Lord in the Sunday school at home, will not win children to Christ in China.
– Charles Spurgeon
Missions
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.
– Charles Spurgeon
Satan | Hell
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
– Charles Spurgeon
Prayer | Revival | Intercession
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.
– Charles Spurgeon
Morality | Hell
You are nothing better than deceitful hypocrites if you harbor in your minds a single unforgiving thought. There are some sins which may be in the heart, and yet you may be saved. But you cannot be saved unless you are forgiving. If we do not choose to forgive, we choose to be damned.
– Charles Spurgeon
Forgiveness
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord’s authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.
– Charles Spurgeon
Worship
The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves–so that we can say, “It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Godliness
Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.
– Charles Spurgeon
Preaching | Jesus
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.
– Charles Spurgeon
Service | Time
I wish that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are willing to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!
– Charles Spurgeon
Surrender | Zeal