Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Spurgeon (English Baptist Preacher)

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) was an English fundamentalist Baptist preacher and theologian. A popular orator ever since his youth, he was well-known for his spontaneous wit, passionate earnestness, and appeal to the individual conscience.

Born in Kelvedon, Essex, Spurgeon was the descendant of two generations of Independent (Congregationalist) ministers. At age 16, he became a Baptist and preached his first sermon, and, at 20, became pastor of the New Park Street Chapel, Southwark, London.

Although Spurgeon had scarcely any formal education, he demonstrated extraordinary preaching ability. His sermons drew such crowds that a new 6,000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle was constructed for him in 1861; he preached there to crowded congregations until his death.

A staunch Calvinist, Spurgeon was firmly opposed to the philological approach of modern biblical criticism. In 1887, he left the Baptist Union since no action was taken against those accused of fundamental theological errors.

Spurgeon edited a monthly publication and founded a pastors’ training college and an orphanage. In addition to 50 volumes of his sermons, he wrote collections of pithy sayings in John Ploughman’s Talk (1869) and works such as The Saint and his Saviour (1857) and Commenting and Commentaries (1876.)

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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Learning, Wisdom

Because God is the living God, he can hear;
because he is a loving God, he will hear;
because he is our covenant God, he has bound himself to hear.
Charles Spurgeon

Giving is true having.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Charity, Giving

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Leadership, Leaders

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trials, Justice, Soldiers

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.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer

That there should be a Christ, and that I should be Christless; that there should be a cleansing, and that I should remain foul; that there should be a Father’s love, and I should be an alien; that there should be a heaven, and I should be cast into hell, is grief embittered, sorrow aggravated.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christian

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Foolishness, Wisdom

It is said that if Noah’s ark had had to be built by a company, they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so.—What is many men’s business is nobody’s business.—The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Individuality

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered…the strength not length of your prayer…wins…God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christian

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Suffering

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again, like the stone of Sisyphus.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trouble

There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.—A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody; or else, in his simplicity, he robs his family to help strangers, and so becomes brother to a beggar.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Generosity

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer

Holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness.
Charles Spurgeon

Oh, brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth.as it is in Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Luxury

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain? So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of?
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Adversity

Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible.—A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Debt

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faith

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Worry, Anxiety, Conversation, Attitude

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Employment

When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.
Charles Spurgeon

As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Trials

The greatest works are done by the ones.—The hundreds do not often do much—the companies never; it is the units—the single individuals, that are the power and the might.—Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Individuality

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer

A beggar’s rags may cover as much pride as an alderman’s gown.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Pride

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Faith, Prayer

Luck generally comes to those who look after it; and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody’s door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Fortune, Luck

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