Charles Spurgeon Quotes
1834–1892 England
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist minister and writer.
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Also known as: C. H. Spurgeon, C.H. Spurgeon, Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon, Charles, Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
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I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
Silence to man and prayer to God are the best cures for the evil of slander.
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me.
Sermons (1854)
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.
Our great object of glorifying God is … to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls...
Lectures to My Students (1870)
From mad dogs and grumbling professors may we all be delivered, and may we never take the complaint from either of them.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Don't rely too much on labels,
For too often they are fables.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.
Sermons (1854)
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
If you want 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 light as a feather and a breath will carry it.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.