Spurgeon Gems Quotes

“No sin, whatever it is, shall ruin any man if he shall come to Christ for mercy. Though you are black as hell’s midnight through iniquity, yet if you will come to Christ, He is ready to cleanse you. It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks your way to the Savior.”–1895,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.”–1893, Sermon 2300”
― Spurgeon (1834-1892), Charles, Spurgeon Gems

“If you believe [in God], your belief will kill your sinning, or else your sinning will kill your believing!”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“God has only to give you what you want to make you feel the emptiness of it!...You will generally notice that when the believer gets near to God, tastes the unseen joys and eats the bread that was made in heaven, all the feasts of earth, all its amusements, and all its glories seem very flat, stale, and unprofitable!”–1891, Sermon 2225”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.”–1891, Sermon 2196”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Prayer should be the natural outflow of the soul: you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for praying has arrived, but because your heart must cry unto your Lord.”–1895, Sermon 2437”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.”–1893, Sermon 2310”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“There would be nobody to receive mercy if nobody were guilty.”–1894, Sermon 2372”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.”–1892, Sermon 2285”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“it is always a gain to us in our experience when we get farther and farther away from every dependence but the Lord!”–1893,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“In His own heart, there were frequently great struggles. And those struggles drove Him to prayer.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“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.”–1895,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“When one knows that his times are in God’s hands, he would not change places with a king! No, nor even with an angel!”–1891, Sermon 2205”
― Spurgeon (1834-1892), Charles, Spurgeon Gems

“Whenever we have to praise God, what do we do? We simply say what He is! ‘You are this and You are that.’ There is no other praise. We cannot fetch anything from anywhere else and bring it to God; the praises of God are simply the facts about Himself! If you want to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, tell the people about Him.”–1891,”
― Spurgeon (1834-1892), Charles, Spurgeon Gems

“God does not need your strength; He has more than enough power of His own! He asks for your weakness.”–1891, Sermon 2209”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“A humble desire is one which leaves everything in God’s hands. The man who has it says, ‘Now, though I desire this, it may be it is not a right desire. Lord, I desire only to desire what I ought to desire! My desire is that Your desire should be written on my heart, that I may desire what You desire.’ Your will be done in my soul, in my body, in my circumstances, and in me, in all respects.”–1894, Sermon 2342”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“If the enemy begins to love one of the king’s generals, the king may half suspect that his general is turning traitor.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one another!”–1893, Sermon 2291”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“It is a great sin on the part of Church members if they do not daily sustain their pastor by their prayers!”–1892, Sermon 2261”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“There is joy in hell when a saint grows idle! There is gladness among devils when we cease to pray, when we become slack in faith and feeble in communion with God.”–1893, Sermon 2303”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“All the good that is ever done in the world is worked by the Holy Spirit and, as the Holy Spirit honors Jesus Christ, so Christ puts great honor upon the Holy Spirit. If you and I try, either as a Church or as individuals, to do without the Holy Spirit, God will soon do without us.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.”–1895, Sermon 2437”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Christ and His Gospel will always be spoken against. If you know a gospel which is approved by the age and patronized[6] by the learned, that gospel is a lie!”–1893,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Never let us fall into the false notion that if we magnify Christ, we are depreciating the Father. If any lips have ever spoken concerning the Christ of God so as to depreciate the God of Christ, let those lips be covered with shame!”–1894,”
― Spurgeon (1834-1892), Charles, Spurgeon Gems

“If you ask for wealth, you may not get it; for it is a small and paltry[5] thing which the Lord may not care to give you. But if you ask for eternal life, you shall have it; for this is a great thing and God delights to give the greatest blessings to those who come to Him by Christ Jesus, so that what might seem to hinder should now encourage!”–1894,”
― Spurgeon (1834-1892), Charles, Spurgeon Gems

“God’s grace can keep you abstaining from sin, but, if you begin sinning, oh, how one sin draws on another! One sin is the decoy or magnet for another sin, and draws it on; and one cannot tell, when he begins to descend this slippery slide, how quickly and how far he may go!”–1895, Sermon 2414”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“We are not saved by obedience, for obedience is the result of salvation! We are saved by faith because faith leads us to obey! Faith is weakness clinging to strength and becoming strong through so doing.”–1891, Sermon 2209”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Not only are we ourselves in the hand of the Lord, but all that surrounds us. Our times make up a kind of atmosphere of existence; and all this is under Divine arrangement. We dwell within the palm of God’s hand. We are absolutely at His disposal and all our circumstances are arranged by Him in all their details. We are comforted to have it so.”–1891, Sermon 2205 “All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display His gracious work in us.”–1893, Sermon 2310”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems