A good quote gives the reader pause because there’s substance to ponder and consider. The best quotes invite us to linger, to mine for treasure beneath the surface. Charles Spurgeon quotes do just that—they challenge, inspire, move us to action, and ultimately invite us into a closer relationship with Christ.
Who Was Charles Spurgeon and What Did He Do?
Charles Spurgeon was an English Baptist preacher who lived from 1834-1892. He began preaching the Word of God as a teenager in rural Cambridgeshire and was soon invited to London where he preached for the New Park Street Chapel. The congregation was so moved by the young preacher, they continued to invite him to stay. As his reputation grew, Spurgeon was invited to speak throughout London and around the nation.
Spurgeon had an impressive work ethic, preaching the Gospel message up to 13 times a week (over 600 times before he was 20). At his death, he had written myriad collections of commentaries, devotions, sayings, and illustrations and is the most read Christian author today (outside of the Holy Scriptures).
Most importantly, Charles Spurgeon preached the Cross of Christ—for he knew that the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are where mankind’s bondage to sin was broken, once for all, for all who believe.
If you long to ponder the deep things of our faith, spend time with this authentic and passionate man of God, and soak in these Charles Spurgeon quotes. Let his wisdom direct you to the Source of all wisdom—our Creator, Sustainer, and Hope.
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding (Proverbs 2:6).
Charles Spurgeon Quotes about Prayer
“Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.”
“Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.”
“I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.”
“The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.”
"No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me."
"He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal."
"Prayer moves the arm that moves the world."
"Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart."
“The very act of prayer is a blessing.”
“To pray is to enter the treasure-house of God and to gather riches out of an inexhaustible storehouse.”
“All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.”
“Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its living union with the stem, so prayer buds, and blossoms, and fruits out of souls abiding in Jesus.”
Spurgeon Quotes about the Bible
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
“Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.”
“The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.”
“Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, ‘Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.”
“The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.”
“The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.”
"Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself."
“The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.”
“You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.”
Charles Spurgeon Quotes on Love
“If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with His love.”
“We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.”
"Christians, you are to love one another, not because of the gain which you get from one another, but rather because of the good you can do to one another."
"The seasons change, and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever."
"The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live."
"His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens."
"We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God."
Charles Spurgeon Quotes on the Life of Faith
“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”
“The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.”
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.”
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
“A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.”
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
“There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”
“Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
“God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.”
“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.”
“The true Christian life, when we live near to God, is the rough draft of the life of full communion above.”
“There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below. ”
"There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away."
“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages”
Further Reading
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