Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography Quotes

“I remember, on one occasion, her praying thus: “Now, Lord, if my children go on in their sins, it will not be from ignorance that they perish, and my soul must bear a swift witness against them at the day of judgment if they lay not hold of Christ.” That thought of a mother’s bearing swift witness against me, pierced my conscience, and stirred my heart.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Alphonse Karr tells a story of a servant-man who asked his master to be allowed to leave his cottage, and sleep over the stable. What was the matter with his cottage? “Why, sir, the nightingales all around the cottage make such a ‘jug, jug, jug,’ at night that I cannot bear them.” A man with a musical ear would be charmed with the nightingales’ song, but here was a man without a musical soul who found the sweetest notes a nuisance. This is a feeble image of the incapacity of unregenerate man for the enjoyments of the world to come, and as he is incapable of enjoying them, so is he incapable of longing for them.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Jesus! my Lord!’ their harps employs; ‘Jesus! my Love!’ they sing; ‘Jesus! the life of all my joys!’ Sounds sweet from every string.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Prayer is to me now what the sucking of the milk was to me in my infancy. Although I do not always feel the same relish for it, yet I am sure I cannot live without it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“How could a Christian live happily, or live at all, if he had not the assurance that his life is in Christ, and his support, the Lord’s undertaking?”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“I cannot preach my Master even as I myself know Him, and what I know of Him is very little compared with the matchlessness of His grace. Would that I knew more of Him, and that I could tell it out better!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“If there were no hereafter, I would still prefer to be a Christian, and the humblest Christian minister, to being a king or an emperor, for I am persuaded there are more delights in Christ, yea, more joy in one glimpse of His face than is to be found in all the praises of this harlot- world,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The Holy Spirit, who enabled me to believe, gave me peace through believing. I felt as sure that I was forgiven as before I felt sure of condemnation.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The revealed Word awakened me; but it was the preached Word that saved me;”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“If you trust Christ, He will save you from all evil; He will keep you in a life of integrity and holiness while here, and He will bring you safe to Heaven at the last.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Whenever I heard the doctrine of the final preservation of the saints preached, my mouth used to water to be a child of God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“God always humbles the sinner whom He means to save.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“I am bold to say that, if a man be destitute of the grace of God, his works are only works of slavery; he feels forced to do them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“I really thought I was quite a respectable lad, and might have been half inclined to boast that I was not like other boys, — untruthful, dishonest, disobedient, swearing, Sabbath-breaking, and so on. But, all of a sudden, I met Moses,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Our Heavenly Father does not usually cause us to seek the Savior till He has whipped us clean out of all our confidence; He cannot make us in earnest after Heaven till He has made us feel something of the intolerable tortures of an aching conscience, which is a foretaste of hell.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Neither in the Church militant nor in the host triumphant is there one who received a new heart, and was reclaimed from sin without a wound from Jesus. The pain may have been but slight, and the healing may have been speedy; but in each case there has been a real bruise, which required a Heavenly Physician to heal.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Possibly, much of the flimsy piety of the present day arises from the ease with which men attain to peace and joy in these evangelistic days. We would not judge modern converts, but we certainly”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The laborious pastor, the fervent minister, the ardent evangelist, the faithful teacher, the powerful intercessor, can all trace the birth of their zeal to the sufferings they endured through sin, and the knowledge they thereby attained of its evil nature. We have ever drawn the sharpest arrows from the quiver of our own experience. We find no sword-blades so true in metal as those which have been forged in the furnace of soul-trouble.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The laborious pastor, the fervent minister, the ardent evangelist, the faithful teacher, the powerful intercessor, can all trace the birth of their zeal to the sufferings they endured through sin, and the knowledge they thereby attained of its evil nature.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“If we have any power to console the weary, it is the result of our remembrance of what we once suffered, — for here lies our power to sympathize.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The ten commandments were those black horses, and the justice of God, like a plowshare, tore my spirit. I was condemned, undone, destroyed, — lost, helpless, hopeless, — I thought hell was before me.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Popery Teaches the Adoration of a Breaden God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions, and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Ever since that early sickening, I have hated debt as Luther hated the Pope.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“THE story of Mr. Knill’s prophesying that I should preach the gospel in Rowland Hill’s Chapel, and to the largest congregations in the world, has been regarded by many as a legend, but it was strictly true.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“It is easy to tell a real Puritan book even by its shape and by the appearance of the type. I confess that I harbor a prejudice against nearly all new editions, and cultivate a preference for the originals, even though they wander about in sheepskins and goatskins, or are shut up in the hardest of boards.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“In fact, children are capable of understanding some things in early life, which we hardly understand afterwards. Children have eminently a simplicity of faith, and simplicity of faith is akin to the highest knowledge;”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“Among other reasons which will readily suggest themselves, one alone will suffice. Every Christian knows, experimentally, that the Bible is the Word of God. When a sinner becomes seriously concerned about his character, state, and prospects, if he reads the Bible, he finds at first that it is all against him. By the holy law of God he is convicted and condemned; and he is conscious of a power and dignity in the Word of condemnation that makes him feel that it is the Word of God. There is a power in the Word that proves it Divine; and he who has once experienced its influence will never doubt its truth.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography

“When we used to go to school, we would draw houses, and horses, and trees on our slates, and I remember how we used to write “house” under the house, and “horse” under the horse, for some persons might have thought the horse was a house. So there are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Charles Spurgeon - An Autobiography