“For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.”
Source: Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)
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Famous Charles Spurgeon Quotes
“When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.”
Source: Morning by Morning
“You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497
“The world's one and only remedy is the cross.”
Source: Daily Help Devotional
“When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.”
“Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.”
Source: Morning & Evening
Source: Sermons
“A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile”
Source: Treasury of David
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915
“Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.”
Source: Gleanings Among The Sheaves
“Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82
Source: The King's Highway Opened and Cleared: A Selection of Choice Sermons Delivered in London
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756
“It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.”
“Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.”
Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised
Source: The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms
“It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".”
“Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.”
Source: Morning and Evening
Source: Morning and Evening
“An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
Source: Morning and Evening
“When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
Source: Gems from Spurgeon; or, Extracts from the note-book of a non-professional reporter
“Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.”
Source: Treasury of David
“All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.”
Source: John Ploughman's Pictures
Source: Strengthen My Spirit
“If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.”