Charles Spurgeon remains one of the most influential preachers in church history. His sermons continue to move the hearts of millions of Christians around the world, and for good reason. His unapologetic magnification of Christ through memorable and pictorial language (inspired by His Saviour's use of parables), alongside his unique takes on familiar passages, has given him the title 'prince of preachers'.
Here, you'll find 100 of the most powerful and encouraging quotes by C.H. Spurgeon. These Spurgeon quotes have been especially selected as some of the finest from his sermons and writings. It only takes around 15 minutes to read through all of them. Consider taking note of the quotes that stand out to you. They're great for sermons, Bible studies, and sharing with others in person or on social media.
Without further ado, here are 100 Spurgeon quotes you should know:
1. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
2. Of two evils, choose neither.
3. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living.
4. Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
5. I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.
6. I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
7. Christ is all in the entire work of salvation.
8. Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.
9. Virtues without faith are whitewashed sins.
10. Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
11. Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don’t know where we are going, we know with whom we go.
12. Christ did it all, and will not be helped in the matter. Christ will not allow you, as some say, to do what you can, and leave him to make up the rest.
13. No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
14. Nothing puts life into men like a dying Saviour.
15. A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
16. Whether you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be first and chiefly Christians—Christians—following Christ, receiving him as the great Expositor to you of God, and of the great truths of revelation.
17. If all my senses were to contradict God, I would deny every one of them and sooner believe myself to be out of my right mind than believe that God could lie.
18. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
19. Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
20. Giving is true having.
21. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
22. You will not be saved by feeling that Christ died for you, but by his dying for you.
23. I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
24. God helps those who cannot help themselves.
25. Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
26. I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this—I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in him, and if he falls, I shall fall with him. But if he does not, I shall not.
27. I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
28. The weak mind is irritated at a little; the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
29. Do you not realise that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ, He now bestows on you?
30. The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
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31. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favours and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!
32. My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
33. 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.
34. One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweller, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
35. It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that his word should sustain us?
36. Calvary preaching, Calvary theology, Calvary books, Calvary sermons! These are the things we want. And in proportion as we have Calvary exalted and Christ magnified, the gospel is preached.
37. Christ hath died! Atonement is complete! God is satisfied! Peace is proclaimed!
38. Within the Scripture, there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
39. Get away to your God, O Christian!
40. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher; otherwise, men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise, it could consist of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.
41. Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
42. There are some preachers who cannot or do not preach about the blood of Jesus Christ, and I have one thing to say to you concerning them: Never go to hear them! Never listen to them!
43. You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
44. The same sun which melts wax hardens clay. And the same Gospel which melts some persons to repentance hardens others in their sins.
45. He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.
46. Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching—where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.
47. I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when God has seemed most cruel to me, he has then been most kind. If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else, it is for pain and affliction. I am sure that in these things, the richest, tenderest love has been manifested to me.
48. I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
49. A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.
50. Jesus! It is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! The life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.
51. God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
52. Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved ‘through faith,’ but salvation is ‘by grace’.
53. Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
54. Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an impractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.
55. Is there nothing to sing about today? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.
56. The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray.
57. If my sermons kept people from reading the Bible for themselves, I would like to see the whole stock in a blaze and burned to ashes.
58. Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
59. When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
60. The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
61. You cannot sin so much as God can forgive. If it comes to a pitched battle between sin and grace, you shall not be so bad as God shall be good.
62. I would rather speak five words out of this book than 50,000 words of the philosophers. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God’s Word into our sermons.
63. By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.
64. The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ, and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.
65. ‘You are no saint,’ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
66. God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.
67. What a Magna Carta is this! The old covenant says, “Keep the law and live.” The new covenant is, “You shall live, and I will lead you to keep my law, for I will write it on your heart.”
68. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
69. 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.
70. Our sorrows are all, like ourselves, mortal…They come, but blessed be God, they also go. We suffer today, but we shall rejoice tomorrow.
71. We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
72. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
73. When you feel disinclined to pray, let it be a sign to you that prayer is doubly necessary! Pray for prayer!
74. If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
75. Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
76. Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord.
77. When we cannot pray as we would, it is good to pray as we can.
78. Not to pray because you do not feel fit to pray is like saying, “I will not take medicine because I am too ill.” Pray for prayer: pray yourself, by the Spirit’s assistance, into a praying frame.
79. The seasons change, and you change, but your Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad, and as full as ever.
80. We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
81. Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
82. Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the centre, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
83. I believe that if I should preach to you the atonement of our Lord Jesus, and nothing else, twice every Sabbath day, my ministry would not be unprofitable.
84. The pith, the essence of faith, lies in this—a casting oneself on the promise.
85. Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that.
86. To me, the greatest privilege in all the world would be perfect holiness. If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of, I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.
87. The salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.
88. All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
89. Lord, sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
90. If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.
91. I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
92. 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.
93. Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.
94. That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
95. There is nothing so deluding as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that these feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the word of Christ?
96. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case.
97. If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
98. Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
99. You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
100. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
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