Sermons & Devotionals by C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861 the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

DEMON POSSESSION

Satan is not inside our heart now; he entered into Judas, but he cannot enter into us; for our soul is filled by another who is well able to hold His own. GS116... Read More

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DEMONS

There are grades in devilry as there are in human sin. All men are evil, but all men are not alike evil. All devils are full of sin, but they are not all sinful to the same degree. Do we not read in Scripture, “Then goeth he and taketh unto him seven other spirits more wicked than himself?” It may b... Read More

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DEPRAVITY

It is the surest proof of man’s natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself. AP36 We have in our time heard great talk about discovering pure, unsophisticated tribes, beautiful in native innocence, untainted with the vices of civilization; but it has turne... Read More

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DEPRESSION

Better to have a Christian’s days of sorrow, than a worldling’s days of mirth. WC87 To have something to do for Jesus, and to go right on with it, is one of the best ways to get over a bereavement, or any heavy mental depression. If you can pursue some great object, you will not feel that you are li... Read More

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DESIRE

You may judge a man by what he groans after. ME679 It cannot be that my Lord has made me sick of this world, and yet will not give me another. 2580.351... Read More

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DETERMINATION

A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats. PT167... Read More

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DIARIES

I do not believe in keeping a detailed diary of each day’s experience, for one is very apt, for want of something to put down, to write what is not true, or at least not real. I believe there is nothing more stilted or untruthful, as a general rule, than a religious diary; it easily degenerates into... Read More

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DIFFICULTIES

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. PP127 The more spiritual the exercise, the sooner we tire. Joshua was not weary of fighting in the valley, but Moses’ hands began to grow weary with holding them up in prayer. 3219.494... Read More

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DILIGENCE

A wise man does at first what a fool does at last. PP20 I find in Scripture that most of the great appearances that were made to eminent saints were made when they were busy. WWi55 Those who do much already, are usually the people who can do more. 998.361 Instead of complaining that you have no more... Read More

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DISAPPOINTMENT

Like Jehoshaphat, we may be precious in the Lord’s sight, although our schemes end in disappointment. ME26 It was a pretty remark I read, the other day, of a Christian man who said, “I used to have many disappointments, until I changed one letter of the word, and chopped it into two, so that instead... Read More

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DISCERNMENT

It is for us, therefore, to judge carefully, and not to think that any opinion will do. Besides, opinions have influence upon the conduct, and if a man have a wrong opinion, he will, most likely, in some way or other, have wrong conduct, for the two usually go together. 134.221 A little excess in ri... Read More

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DISCIPLESHIP

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will. PP34 If I had any human master he would have been out of patience with me long ago, but the Lord Jesus Christ never gives up a scholar; having once commenced to teach, he continues his divine lessons till they are fully learned, and t... Read More

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DISCONTENTMENT

Many a worldling is satiated, but not one is satisfied. TD103:5 This is the miraculous mistake of man,—that he is always beginning to live; but he never does live; he always intends to be satisfied, but he never is; he always means to sit down in content, but that period never arrives. He always has... Read More

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DISTRACTION

To have a great many aims and objects is much the same thing as having no aim at all; for if a man shoots at many things he will hit none, or none worth the hitting. GS303 Man invents mechanical forms and modes in order to get away from the horrible necessity of thinking, but in doing so he destroys... Read More

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DIVISION

Discord usually takes first hold upon the thorns; it is nurtured among the hypocrites and base professors in the church, and away it goes among the righteous, blown by the winds of hell, and no one knows where it may end. ME475 Divisions in Churches never begin with those full of love to the Saviour... Read More

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DIVORCE

Ah! there is no divorce court in heaven, there is no division, no separation bill possible, for he “hateth putting away.” If chosen, he will not reject, if once embraced, he will never cast out; his she is, and his she shall be evermore. 374.211 When should a man forget or forsake his spouse? Never ... Read More

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DOCTRINE

Now, extremes are the error of ignorance. Generally, when men believe one truth, they carry it so far as to deny another; and, very frequently, the assertion of a cardinal truth leads men to generalise on the other particulars, and so to make falsehoods out of truth. 128.169 Men are rather triflers ... Read More

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DOCTRINE -FALSE

Men go after novel and false doctrines because they do not really know the truth; for if the truth had gotten into them and filled them, they would not have room for these day-dreams. GS108 It has been well remarked by a great writer, that he never knew a man who held any great theological error, wh... Read More

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DOCTRINE -SOUND

The path of truth in doctrine is generally a middle one. WCo35 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. You will te... Read More

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DOGMATISM

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me. 1005.449 It is of no use for a man to say, “I have made up my mind upon certain things,” and to keep doggedly fighting over those matters, while, at the same time, the whole of his life is unkind, ungenerous, and unl... Read More

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