Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) — Baptistenprediger · Baptistisch · England
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) war ein englischer Baptistenpastor, der in London eines der größten freikirchlichen Gemeindezentren des 19. Jahrhunderts leitete. Bekannt wurde er durch seine volksnahe, bildstarke Predigtweise, weitverbreitete Auslegungswerke wie „Aus der Schatzkammer Davids“ sowie seinen entschiedenen Widerstand gegen theologische Liberalisierungstendenzen im sogenannten Downgrade-Streit. Für Bibelleser heute steht sein Werk für eine seelsorglich sensible Schrifterklärung, die reformierte Glaubenslehre mit praktischer Alltagserfahrung verbindet.
Era: Revival & the 19th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Illness & Weakness, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Suffering & the Question of God, Peace & Rest, Humility & Pride, Grief & Comfort
Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray before you have prayed!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is better to be a patient of Christ than a doctor of theology.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Whatever tomorrow may bring, our God is a God of tomorrow too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Well, if I am no saint, then I am a sinner, and Jesus came into the world to save sinners. So I will go to Christ and look to him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Death in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains… Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man’s pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can’t bite; the shadow of a sword can’t kill.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If God would have painted a yellow stripe on the backs of the elect I would go around lifting shirts. But since He didn’t I must preach “whosoever will” and when “whatsoever” believes I know that he is one of the elect.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our old man is crucified, but he is long at dying.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body… Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is no need for two to care, for God to care and the creature too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and disordered minds. They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No pillow so soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured interest in Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Empty buckets are best suited for the well of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our own powerlessness changes nothing about God's promise.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is more glory in one drop of God's approval than in an ocean of human praise.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The weakness of the hand will not diminish the strength of the medicine.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Wordless prayers are not silent before God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My faith does not rest on what I am, feel, or know, but on what Christ is, what he has done, and what he is still doing for me now. My trust does not rest on my being holy, but on Christ being my righteousness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Lord Jesus understands us to the depths. When others cannot share our sorrow because they do not understand it, the Lord Jesus still comes down to us into the deepest depths and understands our bitterest heartache, because he has experienced it himself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The one with weak faith is just as much a child of God as the hero of faith. Our heavenly Father has the same loving heart for all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not great faith that saves you, but true faith! Salvation does not rest on faith, but on Christ, whom faith trusts.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Lord watches over his children with a gracious and loving eye. They are so precious to him that he cannot turn his eyes from them. He watches over each one as carefully and attentively as if there were no other creature in the whole world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A vigorous draft of sea air or a good walk in the wind will not fill the soul with grace, but it will fill the body with oxygen, which is the next best thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You cannot see the stars by day, except when you are deep down in a shaft. Likewise you often see the stars of promise only when God has sunk you deep into the shaft of suffering.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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