the great Charles H. Spurgeon

I will add some qoutes later on.

Save some, O Christians! By all means,
save some. From yonder flames and
outer darkness, and the weeping, wailing,
and gnashing of teeth, seek to
save some! Let this, as in the case of
the apostle, be your great, ruling object
in life, that by all means you might
save some.
CHARLES SPURGEON


“The gate of heaven, though it is so wide that the greatest sinner may enter, is nevertheless so low that pride can never pass through it.” Charles Spurgeon

Preaching the gospel is to us a matter
of life and death; we throw our whole
soul into it. We live and are happy if
you believe in Jesus and are saved.
But we are almost ready to die if you
refuse the gospel of Christ.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Believe what you do believe, or else
you will never persuade anybody else
to believe it.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Soul, thou wilt find it a hard thing to go at war with the Law. When the Law came in peace,Sinai was altogether on a smoke and even Moses said, ‘I exceeding fear and quake!’ What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished...Can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?” Charles
Spurgeon

She is a traitor to the Master who sent
her if she is so beguiled by the beauties
of taste and art as to forget that to
“preach Christ . . . and Him crucified” is
the only object for which she exists
among the sons of men. The business
of the Church is salvation of souls.
CHARLES SPURGEON

You and I must continue to drive at
men’s hearts till they are broken. Then
we must keep on preaching Christ crucified
until their hearts are bound up.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Now, if you have your hearts
broken up by the Law, you will
find the heart is more deceitful
than the devil. I can say this myself, I am very
much afraid of mine, it is so bad. The heart is
like a dark cellar, full of lizards, cockroaches,
beetles, and all kinds of reptiles and insects,
which in the dark we see not, but the Law
takes down the shutters and lets in the light,
and so we see the evil. Thus sin becoming
apparent by the Law, it is written the Law
makes the offense to abound.” Charles
Spurgeon

As the fisherman longs to take the fish
in his net, as the hunter pants to bear
home his spoil, as the mother pines to
clasp her lost child to her bosom, so do
we faint for the salvation of souls.
CHARLES SPURGEON

The diver plunges deep to find pearls,
and we must accept any labor or hazard
to win a soul.
CHARLES SPURGEON


If you are saved, the work is only half
done until you are employed to bring
others to Christ.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I trust that you will find no rest for your
feet till you have been the means of
leading many to that blessed Savior
who is your confidence and hope.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by His Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.” Charles Spurgeon

You can be forgiven all your sin in half
the tick of a clock, and pass from death
to life more swiftly than I can utter the
words.
CHARLES SPURGEON

One of the earliest things a minister
should do when he leaves college and
settles in a country town or village is to
begin open-air speaking.
CHARLES SPURGEON

No sort of defense is needed for preaching
out of doors; but it would need very
potent arguments to prove that a man
had done his duty who has never
preached beyond the walls of his meeting
place.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“I do not believe that any man can preach
the gospel who does not preach the Law. The
Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the
silken thread of the gospel through a man’s
heart unless you first send the needle of the
Law to make way for it.” Charles Spurgeon


The conscience of a man, when he is really
quickened and awakened by the
Holy Spirit, speaks the truth. It rings the
great alarm bell. And if he turns over in
his bed, that great alarm bell rings out
again and again, “The wrath to come!
The wrath to come! The wrath to come.”
CHARLES SPURGEON

He that pleads for Christ should himself
be moved with the prospect of Judgment
Day.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I would freely give my eyes if you might
but see Christ, and I would willingly
give my hands if you might but lay
hold on Him.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs
rather than souls be lost. What we
want is to win souls. They are not won
by flowery speeches. Charles Spurgeon

Sin and hell are married unless repentance
proclaims the divorce.
CHARLES SPURGEON

When your will is God’s will, you will
have your will.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Preach Christ or nothing: don’t dispute
or discuss except with your eye on the
cross.
CHARLES SPURGEON


“When anyone dies, I ask myself, ‘Was I faithful?’
Did I speak all the truth? And did I speak
it from my very soul every time I preached?”
Charles Spurgeon

Men have been helped to live by
remembering that they must die.
CHARLES SPURGEON

There must be true and deep conviction
of sin. This the preacher must labor
to produce, for where this is not felt,
the new birth has not taken place.
CHARLES SPURGEON

We must school and train ourselves to
deal personally with the unconverted.
We must not excuse ourselves, but
force ourselves to the irksome task until
it becomes easy.
CHARLES SPURGEON

A dead calm is our enemy, a storm
may prove our helper. Controversy may
arouse thought, and through thought
may come the Divine change.
CHARLES SPURGEON

The open-air speaker’s calling is as
honorable as it is arduous, as useful as
it is laborious. God alone can sustain
you in it, but with Him at your side you
will have nothing to fear.
CHARLES SPURGEON

No man who preaches the gospel without
zeal is sent from God to preach at
all.
CHARLES SPURGEON

If people are to be saved by a message,
it must contain at least some measure
of knowledge. There must be light
as well as fire.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Some have used the terrors of the Lord
to terrify, but Paul used them to persuade.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“After this, my brethren, we ought never to speak of petty interruptions or annoyances. Theproximity of a blunderbuss in the hands of a son of Belial is not very conducive to collected thought and clear utterance.” Charles Spurgeon

My main business is the saving of
souls. This one thing I do.
CHARLES SPURGEON

The great benefit of open-air preaching
is that we get so many new comers to
hear the gospel who otherwise would
never hear it.
CHARLES SPURGEON

That sin must die, or you will perish by
it. Depend on it, that sin which you
would save from the slaughter will
slaughter you.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“My anxious desire in that every time I preach, I may clear myself of blood of all men; thatif I step from this platform to my coffin, I may have told out all I knew of the way of salvation.”
Charles Spurgeon

The greatest enemy to human souls is
the self-righteous spirit which makes
men look to themselves for salvation.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I have known what it is to use up all
my ammunition, and then I have, as it
were, rammed myself into the great
gospel gun and fired myself at the
hearers—all my experience of God’s
goodness, all my consciousness of sin,
and all my sense of the power of the
gospel.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I would sooner bring one sinner to
Jesus than unravel all the mysteries of
the Word, for salvation is the thing we
are to live for.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Even with the light of nature, and the light of conscience, and the light of tradition, there are some things we should never have believed to be sins had we not been taught so by the Law.”
Charles Spurgeon

No pursuit of mortal men is to be compared
with that of soul-winning.
CHARLES SPURGEON

In many ministries, there is not enough
of probing the heart and arousing the
conscience by the revelation of man’s
alienation from God, and by the declaration
of the selfishness and the
wickedness of such a state.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Charles Spurgeon stated, “When preaching and private talk are not
available, you need to have a tract ready . . . Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.”

If any man’s life at home is unworthy,
he should go several miles away before
he stands up to preach. When he
stands up, he should say nothing.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in.” Charles Spurgeon

“God be thanked when the
Law so works as to take off the
sinner from all confidence in
himself! To make the leper confess that he is
incurable is going a great way toward compelling
him to go to that divine Savior, who
alone is able to heal him. This is the whole
end of the Law toward men whom God will
save.” Charles Spurgeon

You must have, more or less, a distinct
sense of the dreadful wrath of
God and of the terrors of the judgment
to come, or you will lack energy
in your work and so lack one of the
essentials of success.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“If you never have sleepless hours, if you never have weeping eyes, if your hearts never swell as if they would burst, you need not anticipate that you will be called zealous. You do not know the beginning of true zeal, for the foundation of Christian zeal lies in the heart. The heart must be heavy with grief and yet must beat high with holy ardor. The heart must be vehement in desire, panting continually for God’s glory, or else we shall never attain to anything like the zeal which God would have us know.” Charles Spurgeon

“Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek that gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rains soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let His gospel soak into your soul.” Charles Spurgeon

“Neither the Jewish Law of ten commands nor its law of ceremonies was ever intended to save anybody. By a set of pictures it set forth the way of salvation, but it was not itself the way. It was a map, not a country; a model of the road, not the road itself.” Charles Spurgeon

“Lower the Law and you dim
the light by which man perceives
his guilt; this is a very serious
loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for
it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and
conversion. I say you have deprived the
gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful
weapon] when you have set aside the
Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster
that is to bring men to Christ . . .They
will never accept grace till they tremble before
a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law
serves a most necessary purpose, and it must
not be removed from its place.” Charles
Spurgeon

The preacher’s work is to throw sinners
down in utter helplessness, so
that they may be compelled to look
up to Him who alone can help them.
CHARLES SPURGEON

"It is where you are that you are to fight the battle of life---not somewhere else. And it is as you are, the very man that you are, and just now, this very hour, that God calls you to work in His vineyard."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"If any of you think that you have a perfect child, you will find yourselves grievously mistaken -- the time will come when you will discover that evil is lurking there as it is in you, the father, or in you, the mother -- and it will only need a suitable opportunity to display itself! It will scarcely need fostering by ill companions -- but even in a godly household where the atmosphere of piety abounds -- sin will grow up in the child as naturally as weeds grow in a garden that is left to itself." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"Ah! How foolish we are!
How we repeat the folly
of our first parent every day
when we seek to hide sin
from conscience,
and then think it is hidden
from God."
Charles Spurgeon

So pure, so just, so umcompromising
is the Law of God,
that when it is really understood
it makes us quial,
and brings us to our knees.
Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892
Prince of Preachers

The Law searches
to the dividing asunder of joints
and marrow,
and it is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
Its excessive light strikes us
like Saul of Tarsus,
to the earth,
and makes us cry for mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892
Prince of Preachers

No man knows the brighness
of the gospel
'till he understands the blackness
of those clouds
which surround the Law of the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon

Your one business in life is to lead
men to believe in Jesus Christ by the
power of the Holy Spirit. Every other
thing should be made subservient to
this one objective.
CHARLES SPURGEON

The only real argument against the Bible
is an unholy life. When a man argues
against the Word of God, follow him
home, and see if you cannot discover
the reason of his enmity to the Word of
the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Preach Christ or nothing: don’t dispute
or discuss except with your eye on the
cross.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.” Charles Spurgeon

“I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord’s Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.” Charles Spurgeon

I am told that Christians do not love
each other. I am very sorry if that be
true, but I rather doubt it, for I suspect
that those who do not love each
other are not Christians.
CHARLES SPURGEON

In proportion as a church is holy, in
that proportion will its testimony for
Christ be powerful.
CHARLES SPURGEON

I further believe, although certain persons
deny it, that the influence of fear
is to be exercised over the minds of
men, and that it ought to operate upon
the mind of the preacher himself:
“Noah. . . moved with fear, prepared
an ark to the saving of his house”
(Hebrews 11:7).
CHARLES SPURGEON

“When once God the Holy Spirit
applies the Law to the conscience,
secret sins are dragged
to light, little sins are magnified to their true
size, and things apparently harmless become
exceedingly sinful. Before that dread searcher
of the hearts and trier of the reins makes
His entrance into the soul, it appears righteous,
just, lovely, and holy; but when He reveals
the hidden evils, the scene is changed.
Offenses which were once styled peccadilloes,
trifles, freaks of youth, follies, indulgences,
little slips, etc., then appear in their
true color, as breaches of the Law of God,
deserving condign punishment.” Charles
Spurgeon

Try after sermons to talk to strangers.
The preacher may have missed the
mark, but you need not miss it. Or the
preacher may have struck the mark,
and you can help to make the impression
deeper by a kind word.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“I have no confidence at all in polished speech or brilliant literary effort to bring about a revival, but I have all the confidence in the world in the poor saint who would weep her eyes out because people are living in sin.” Charles Spurgeon

“We want in the church of Christ a band of well-trained sharpshooters, who will pick the people out individually and be always on the watch for all who come into the place, not annoying them, but making sure that they do not go away without having had a personal warning, invitation, and exhortation to come to Christ.” Charles Spurgeon

He is no Christian who does not seek
to serve his God. The very motto of
the Christian should be “I serve.”
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion!” Charles Spurgeon

No sinner looks to the Savior with a dry
eye or a hard heart. Aim, therefore, at
heart-breaking, at bringing home condemnation
to the conscience and weaning
the mind from sin. Be not content
till the whole mind is deeply and vitally
changed in reference to sin.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it
reveals the seat of the malady, and informs
us that the leprosy lies deep within.” Charles
Spurgeon

To be a soul winner is the happiest
thing in this world. And with every soul
you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to
get a new heaven here upon earth.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“O soul! Thou are at war with thy conscience. Thou have tried to quiet it, but it will prick you. Oh, there be some of you to whom conscience is a ghost haunting
you by day and night. You know the good, though you choose the evil; you prick your fingers with the thorn of conscience when you try to pluck the rose of sin.” Charles Spurgeon

Only by imitating the spirit and manner
of the Lord Jesus shall we become
wise to win souls.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Human nature rises against restraint: ‘I had not known lust except the Law had said, ‘Thou shall not covet.’ The depravity of man is excited to rebellion by the promulgation of laws. So evil are we, that we conceive at once the desire to commit an act, simply because it is forbidden.” Charles Spurgeon

What can be wiser than in the highest
sense to bless our fellow men—to
snatch a soul from the gulf that yawns,
to lift it up to the heaven that glorifies,
to deliver an immortal from the
thralldom of Satan, and to bring him
into the liberty of Christ?
CHARLES SPURGEON

I believe that the most damnable thing
a man can do is to preach the gospel
merely as an actor and turn the worship
of God into a kind of theatrical
performance.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“The Law is the surgeon’s knife that cuts
out the proud flesh that the wound may
heal. The Law by itself only sweeps and raises
the dust, but the gospel sprinkles clean
water upon the dust, and all is well in the
chamber of the soul. The Law kills, the gospel
makes alive; the Law strips, and then
Jesus Christ comes in and robes the soul in
beauty and glory. All the commandments,
and all the types direct us to Christ, if we will
but heed their evident intent.” Charles
Spurgeon

The most terrible warning to impenitent
men in all the world is the death
of Christ. For if God spared not His
only Son, on whom was only laid imputed
sin, will He spare sinners whose
sins are their own?
CHARLES SPURGEON

“The cool impudence of Cain is an indication of the state of heart which led up to his murdering his brother; and it was also a part of the result of his having committed that terrible crime. He would not have proceeded to the cruel deed of bloodshed if he had not first cast off the fear of God and been ready to defy his Maker.” Charles Spurgeon

Satan always hates Christian fellowship;
it is his policy to keep Christians
apart. Anything which can divide saints
from one another he delights in.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Preach with this object, that men may
quit their sins and fly to Christ for pardon,
that by His blessed Spirit they may
be renovated and become as much in
love with everything that is holy as
they are now in love with everything
that is sinful.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“But I pray you always to remember, when you think of his perfection, that he has perfection of mercy as well as of holiness, and perfection of love to sinners as well as perfection of hatred of sin; and that, guilty as you are, you must never doubt his affection, for he has pledged you in his heart’s blood, and proved his love by his death.” Charles Spurgeon

If persecution should arise, you should
be willing to part with all that you possess—
with your liberty, with your life
itself, for Christ—or you cannot be His
disciple.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“But oh! sinner, there is no hiding from God. The mountains cannot cover you from Him, even if they would, neither can the rocks conceal you. See, then, at the very outset how this throne should awe our minds with terror. Founded in right, sustained by might, and universal in its dominion, look ye and see the throne which John of old beheld.” Charles Spurgeon

Young men and old men, and sisters of
all ages, if you love the Lord, get a passion
for souls. Do you not see them?
They are going down to hell by the
thousands.
CHARLES SPURGEON

All men who are eminently useful are
made to feel their weakness in a supreme
degree.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Beloved, we must win souls; we cannot
live and see men damned.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Nothing worse can happen to a church
than to be conformed to this world.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Jesus Christ wept over Jerusalem, and you will have to weep over sinners if they are to be saved through you.” Charles Spurgeon

There is no point on which men make
greater mistakes than on the relation
which exists between the Law and the
gospel.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Is sin so luscious that you will burn in
hell forever for it?
CHARLES SPURGEON

I believe the holier a man becomes, the
more he mourns over the unholiness
which remains in him.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“I do not believe that any man can preach
the gospel who does not preach the Law.”
Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin,
you shall have sin unto death. There is
no alternative. If you do not die to sin,
you shall die for sin. If you do not slay
sin, sin will slay you.
CHARLES SPURGEON

“Even if I were utterly selfish and had no care for anything but my own happiness, I would choose, if God allowed, to be a soul winner, for never did I know perfect, overflowing, unutterable happiness of the purest and most ennobling order till I first heard of one who had sought and found a Savior through my means.” Charles Spurgeon

Nothing can damn a man but his own
righteousness; nothing can save him
but the righteousness of Christ.
CHARLES SPURGEON

"We must always remember that most of the miracles of Christ are symbols and emblems of the spiritual and moral miracles that He works in the world of the heart."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"O you redeemed ones... — you who have been bought by the precious blood of this steadfast, resolute Redeemer — come and think awhile of Him, that your hearts may burn within you and that your faces may be set like flints to live and die for Him who lived and died for you"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Do not try to count your sins—your arithmetic will fail you if you attempt such a task as that! But if it will benefit you to go over the transgressions of your life from your youth up even until now, do so with repentant heart. And when you have added them up as best you can, and tried to conceive the total sum of your iniquities, then write at the bottom, 'But the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification'—'from many offenses'—however many they may be—though they should outnumber the sands on the seashore, or the drops that make up the ocean, yet the free gift of Divine pardon sweeps them all away!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Before you leave this place, breathe an earnest prayer to God,
saying, “God, be merciful to me a sinner. Lord, I need to be saved. Save
me. I call upon Thy name . . . Lord, I am guilty, I deserve Thy wrath.
Lord, I cannot save myself. Lord, I would have a new heart and a right
spirit, but what can I do? Lord, I can do nothing, come and work in
me to do of Thy good pleasure.
Thou alone hast power, I know
To save a wretch like me;
To whom, or whither should I go
If I should run from Thee?
But I now do from my very soul call upon Thy name. Trembling,
yet believing, I cast myself wholly upon Thee, O Lord. I trust the
blood and righteousness of Thy dear Son . . . Lord, save me tonight,
for Jesus’ sake.”
Go home alone trusting in Jesus. “I should like to go into the
enquiry-room.” I dare say you would, but we are not willing to pander
to popular superstition. We fear that in those rooms men are
warmed into a fictitious confidence. Very few of the supposed converts
of enquiry-rooms turn out well. Go to your God at once, even
where you now are. Cast yourself on Christ, at once, ere you stir an
inch!

Charles Spurgeon “God [has] appointed a day in which He will
judge the world, and we sigh and cry until it shall end the reign of wickedness,
and give rest to the oppressed. Brethren, we must preach the coming
of the Lord, and preach it somewhat more than we have done, because
it is the driving power of the gospel. Too many have kept back these truths,
and thus the bone has been taken out of the arm of the gospel. Its point
has been broken; its edge has been blunted. The doctrine of judgment to
come is the power by which men are to be aroused. There is another life;
the Lord will come a second time; judgment will arrive; the wrath of God
will be revealed. Where this is not preached, I am bold to say the gospel is
not preached.
“It is absolutely necessary to the preaching of the gospel of Christ that
men be warned as to what will happen if they continue in their sins. Ho,
ho sir surgeon, you are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill! You hope
to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them; and
what happens? They laugh at you; they dance upon their own graves. At
last they die! Your delicacy is cruelty; your flatteries are poisons; you are a
murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool’s paradise? Shall we lull them into
soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers
of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we
will not.”

Charles Spurgeon “When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready. . . Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without
your tracts.”

Charles Spurgeon well remember distributing them in a town in England where
tracts had never been distributed before, and going from house to
house, and telling in humble language the things of the kingdom of
God. I might have done nothing, if I had not been encouraged by
finding myself able to do something . . . [Tracts are] adapted to those
persons who have but little power and little ability, but nevertheless,
wish to do something for Christ. They may not have the tongue of
the eloquent, but they may have the hand of the diligent. They cannot
stand and preach, but they can stand and distribute here and there
these silent preachers . . . They may buy their thousand tracts, and
these they can distribute broadcast.
I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first
step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for
Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the
second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another,
and so at the last . . . There is a real service of Christ in the distribution
of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which
heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover.
How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally
upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell.
I might say, if it were right to quote such a Scripture, “The leaves
were for the healing of the nations”—verily they are so. Scattered
where the whole tree could scarcely be carried, the very leaves have
had a medicinal and a healing virtue in them and the real word of
truth, the simple statement of a Savior crucified and of a sinner who
shall be saved by simply trusting in the Savior, has been greatly blessed,
and many thousand souls have been led into the kingdom of heaven
by this simple means. Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for
Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first
thing.

“The open-air speaker’s calling is as honorable as it is arduous,
as useful as it is laborious. God alone can sustain you in it,
but with Him at your side you will have nothing to fear.”
CHARLES SPURGEON

"I am sure our Lord Jesus Christ does not want His ministers to deliver magnificent orations, spread-eagle sermons, with long and elaborate sentences in them. He wants them to just come and talk as He talked, in all simplicity, so that the very poorest and most illiterate of their hearers may understand their meaning, embrace the Truths of God they proclaim and find everlasting life in Him of whom they speak."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"The Old Testament is not to be regarded with one jot less of reverence and love than is the New Testament—they must remain bound together, for they are the one Revelation of the mind and will of God—and woe be to the man who shall attempt to rend asunder that seamless garment of Holy Scripture!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"O you legalists who are looking to yourselves for some arguments with which to prevail with God! O you who look to your sacraments, to your outward forms, to your pious deeds and your almsgivings for something that will move the heart of God--know this, that these things are no lever that can ever move Him to love! Nothing but your sin and misery can ever stir His mercy! And you look to the wrong place when you look to your merits to find a plea why He should show pity upon you!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Is there a Christian in this place who comes up to the standard of Zacchaeus after he was converted? I do not wish to be censorious, but I doubt if there is one. Is there anybody here who gives away half his income to the poor? I think that was going a long way in Grace in the matter of almsgiving. And then remember that he was but a babe in Grace when he did that-;so what he did when he grew older, I do not know."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Ah, my Brothers and Sisters, Christ's eyes look in the opposite direction to ours. We usually look for some goodness on the part of men before we help them, but He looks to their sin, degradation and need. He is kind to the unthankful and the evil. He justifies those who are not, in themselves, just — while we were dead in trespasses and sins, 'in due time Christ died for the ungodly.' Grace, pure Grace, abounds in Him and is blessedly manifested in His mission of saving the lost."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"We have not completely conquered the spirit of the world until we can truthfully say that the commandments of God, so far from being grievous to us, are acceptable simply because they come from Him."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Beloved, I trust that each one of you who believes in Jesus, knows what that rest of heart is which enables you to say, 'My God, my Father, You can do nothing to me but what Infinite Love dictates, for I know that You love me even as You love Your first-born and only-begotten Son.'"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"When a man is his own ruler, he has all the responsibility of what he does — but when he implicitly obeys Christ's command, he is not responsible for the result of his actions — that rests with Him who gave the command."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"We fall into grievous error when we entertain this kind of idea! God's ways are diverse — from the beginning to the end, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and our Lord Jesus Christ act sovereignly and do not choose to follow one particular mode of action in every case."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out, and come what may, you will be respected though abused. They may say you are an enthusiast, a fanatic, a fool, but those names from the world are titles of praise and glory. The world does not take the trouble to nickname a man unless he is worth it. It will not give you any censure unless it trembles at you. The moment they begin to turn at bay, it is because they feel they have a man to do with."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"'But may I lay hold on Christ,' asks someone, 'and trust Him thus?' You had better ask me whether you may refuse to do so, and I will answer you in His own words, 'He that believes not shall be damned.' Now, if Christ pronounces condemnation upon the man who believes not, it is clear that you may believe in Him!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

The first use of the law is to manifest to man his guilt. When God intends to save a man, the first thing he does with him is to send the law to him, to show him how guilty, how vile, how ruined he is, and in how dangerous a position. ~Charles Spurgeon

God, when he begins to save us from such an imminent danger, sendeth his law, which, with a stout kick, rouses us up, makes us open our eyes, we look down on our terrible danger, discover our miseries, and then it is we are in a right position to cry out for salvation, and our salvation comes to us. ~Charles Spurgeon

Look ye here, have ye not broken these ten commandments; even in the letter have ye not broken them? Who is there among you who hath always honored his father and mother? Who is there among us who hath always spoken the truth? Have we not sometimes borne false witness against our neighbor? Is there one person here who has not made unto himself another God, and loved himself, or his business, or his friends, more than he has Jehovah, the God of the whole earth? Which of you hath not coveted your neighbour's house, or his man-servant, or his ox, or his ass? We are all guilty with regard to every letter of the law; we have all of us transgressed the commandments. ~Charles Spurgeon

But the law comes, takes the shutters down, lets light in, and then we discover what a vile heart we have, and how unholy our lives have been; and, then, instead of boasting, we are made to fall on our faces and cry, "Lord, save or I perish. Oh, save me for thy mercy's sake, or else I shall be cast away." ~Charles Spurgeon

Perfect obedience in the future is impossible. And the ten commandments are held up, and if any awakened sinner will but look at them, he will turn away and say, "It is impossible for me to keep them." "Why, man, you say you will be obedient in the future. You have not been obedient in the past, and there is no likelihood that you will keep God's commandments in time to come. ~Charles Spurgeon

The law is intended to show man the misery which will, fall upon him through his sin. ~Charles Spurgeon

"If you must be angry, (and you must, sometimes), take care that you do not sin when you are angry. It is rather a difficult thing to be angry and not to sin, yet, if a man were to see sin and not to be angry with it, he would sin through not being angry! If we are only angry, in a right spirit, with a wrong thing, we shall manage to obey the injunction of the Apostle, 'Be you angry, and sin not' (Eph 4:26)."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"We have sometimes rejoiced greatly when we have had as many as a hundred added to this Church in a month, yet I have gone away and said to myself--'What is that hundred, after all? It is not sufficient to keep pace with the increase of the population.' It makes us very sad to know that the increase of sinners far exceeds the increase of the converts to God."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"He who sees even the most of this world has but the same sort of eyes that birds and beasts have — but he who knows his Bible to be true and who realizes the truth of it in his soul — has another set of eyes that can peer into another realm altogether. He sees spiritual things and around him there shines a Light which is, indeed, marvelous!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Beloved, I trust that each one of you who believes in Jesus, knows what that rest of heart is which enables you to say, 'My God, my Father, You can do nothing to me but what Infinite Love dictates, for I know that You love me even as You love Your first-born and only-begotten Son.'"
~ Charles Spurgeon

Our blessed Lord is to be imitated by us in that He frequently sought and enjoyed retirement. His was a very busy life. He had much more to do than you and I have, yet He found abundant time for private prayer.
~ Charles Spurgeon

"...among all the terrible words spoken concerning the penalty of sin, the most terrible are those which were uttered by our Lord Jesus Christ, the most loving and tender of all teachers. Measure not a man's true tenderness of heart by his avoidance of the subject of 'the wrath to come.'"
~ Charles Spurgeon

There are some people who seem as if they would not be converted unless they can see some eminent minister. Even that will not suit some of them — they need a special revelation from Heaven. They will not take a text from the Bible — though I cannot conceive of anything better than that — but they think that if they could dream something, or if they could hear words spoken in the cool of the evening by some strange voice in the sky, then they might be converted. Well, Brothers and Sisters, if you will not eat the apples that grow on trees, you must not expect angels to come and bring them to you!
~ Charles Spurgeon

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. ~Charles Spurgeon

"Our Savior speaks thus, “Your faith has saved you,” because He knows that it will be understood that faith is only the connecting link with Himself—that He reall y works the salvation, but that the faith of the Believer is the means of obtaining it."
~ Charles Spurgeon

When anyone dies, I ask myself, "Was I faithful?" Did I speak all the truth? And did I speak if from my very soul every time I preached?
~ Charles Spurgeon

Men have been helped to live by remembering that they must die.
~Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to dea personally with the unconverted. We must not exuse ourselves, but force ourselves to irksome task until it becomes easy.
~Charles Spurgeon

If people are to be saved by a message, it must contain at least some measure of knowledge. There must be light as well as fire.
~Charles Spurgeon

"'But,' someone asks, 'may not a man be attentive to business?' He ought to be! He should be diligent in business, but always with this higher motive outreaching everything else—that he may win Christ and be found in Him and that his life may bring glory to the God who made him and to the Christ who redeemed him with His precious blood."
~ Charles Spurgeon

Some have used the terrors of the Lord to terrify, but Paul used them to persuade.
~Charles Spurgeon

"As captives chained to the wheels of the returning conqueror's chariot make his triumphal procession the more illustrious, so is Christ upon the Cross the more manifestly triumphant in His Infinite Grace as He leads the restored Peter back to His Apostleship and takes the penitent thief, plucked from perdition, up with Himself into the Paradise of God!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

That sin must die, or you will perish by it. Depend on it, that sin which you would save from the slaughter will slaughter you.
~Charles Spurgeon

My anxious desire in that every time I preach, I may clear myself of blood of all men; that if I step from this platform to my coffin, I may have told out all I knew of the way of salvation.
~Charles Spurgeon

The Law cuts into the core of the evil; it reveals the seat of the malady and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.
Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892
Prince of Preachers

"It was said of Caesar, when he landed here, that he stumbled, but, clutching a handful of earth, he hailed it as a happy omen, saying that in taking possession of that handful of earth, he had taken all England for his own. And you, who on your bended knees fell prostrate before God in that first rich treasure of joy which came into your souls--you took possession of all the inheritance of the saints on earth and of their inheritance in Heaven, too!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"I am sure our Lord Jesus Christ does not want His ministers to deliver magnificent orations, spread-eagle sermons, with long and elaborate sentences in them. He wants them to just come and talk as He talked, in all simplicity, so that the very poorest and most illiterate of their hearers may understand their meaning, embrace the Truths of God they proclaim and find everlasting life in Him of whom they speak."
~ Charles Spurgeon

To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles H. Spurgeon
1834-1892
British Evangelist

"The Law cuts into the core of the evil; it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that leprosy lies deep within.
Charles H. Spurgeon
1834-1892
Foremost Preacher
of the 19Th Century

The wicked cannot live in heaven. They would be out of their element. Sooner could a fish live in a tree—than the wicked in Paradise! Heaven would be an intolerable hell--to an impenitent man, even if he could be allowed to enter. But such a privilege shall never be granted to the man who perseveres in his iniquities. May God grant that we may have a name and a place in His courts above!
~ Charles Spurgeon

When God gave to Israel his law,—the law of the first covenant,—it was such a holy law that it ought to have been kept by the people. It was a just and righteous law, concerning which God said, "Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord." The law of the ten commandments is strictly just; it is such a law as a man might make for himself if he studied his own best interests, and had wisdom enough to frame it aright. It is a perfect law, in which the interests of God and man are both studied; it is not a partial law, but impartial, complete, and covering all the circumstances of life. You could not take away one command out of the ten without spoiling both tables of the law, and you could not add another command without being guilty of making a superfluity. The law is holy, and just, and good; it is like the God who made it, it is a perfect law. Then, surely, it ought to have been kept. When men revolt against unjust laws, they are to be commended; but when a law is admitted to be perfect, then disobedience to it is an act of exceeding guilt. Further, God not only gave a law which ought to have been kept, because of its own intrinsic excellence, but he also gave it in a very wonderful way, which ought to have ensured its observance by the people. The Lord came down upon Mount Sinai in fire, and the mountain was altogether on a smoke, and the smoke thereof ascended "as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount Quaked greatly;" and the sight that was then seen on Sinai, and the sounds that were there heard, and all the pomp and awful grandeur were so terrible that even Moses,—that boldest, calmest, quietest of men said, "I do exceedingly fear and quake." ~ Charles Spurgeon

The law of God could not have Been made known to mankind in grander or more sublime style than was displayed in the giving of that covenant on Mount Sinai. ~ Charles Spurgeron

"Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them" "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." It was the capital sentence that was to be pronounced upon the disobedient; there could be no heavier punishment than that. God had, as it were, drawn his sword against sin; and if man had been a reasonable being, he ought at once to have started back from committing an act which he might be sure would make God his foe. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The fact is, that the covenant of works, if it be looked upon as a way of safety, is a total failure. No man ever persevered in it unto the end, and no man ever attained unto life by keeping it. Nor can we, now that we are fallen, ever hope to be better than our unfallen covenant-head, Adam; nor may we, who are already lost and condemned by our sinful works, dream for a moment that we shall be able to save ourselves by our works. You see, dear friends, the first covenant was in these terms,—"You do right, and God will reward you for it. If you deserve life, God will give it to you." Now, as you all know right well, that covenant was broken all to pieces; it was unable to stand by reason of the weakness of our flesh and the corruptness of our nature. So God set aside that first covenant, he put it away as an outworn and useless thing; and he brought in a new covenant,—the covenant of grace; and in our text we see what is the tenor of it: "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." This is one of the most glorious promises that ever fell from the lips of infinite love. God said not, "I will come again, as I came on Sinai, and thunder at them." ~ Charles Spurgeon

When the Holy Spirit comes to us, he shows us what the law really is. Take, for instance, the command, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." "Well!" says one, "I have not broken that commandment." "Stay," says the Spirit of God, "till you know the spiritual meaning of that command, for whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." There is, also, the command, "Thou shalt not kill." "Oh!" says the man, "I never killed anybody, I have not committed murder." "But," says the Spirit of God, "whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer." When the Lord thus writes his law upon our heart, he makes us to know the far-reaching power and scope of the commandment. He causes us to understand that it touches not only actions and words, but thoughts, ay, and the most transient imaginations, the things that are scarcely born within us, the sights that pass in a moment across the mind, like a stray passenger who passes in front of the camera when a photographer is taking a view. The Spirit of God teaches us that even these momentary impressions are sinful, and that the very thought of foolishness is sin.
Did you, dear friend, ever have truth truly written on your heart? If so, I will tell you how you felt; you abhorred yourself, and you said, "Who can stand before this terrible law? Who can ever hope to keep these commandments?" You looked to the flames that Moses saw on Sinai and you shrank and trembled almost unto despair, and you entreared that these terrible words should not be spoken to you any more. Yet was it good for you thus to be made to know the law,—not in the letter of it only, but in its cutting crushining, killing spirit for it worketh death to self-righteousness and death to all carnal boastings. When the law comes, sin revives, and we die; that is all that can come of it by itself. Yet is it necessary that there should be such a death as that, and that there should be such a revival of sin that we may know the truth about it, and under the force of that truth may be driven to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the end of the Iaw for righteousness to every one that believeth." So, then, writing the law in our heart means, first, making us know what the law really is. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I know that there is some sort of a conscience in most men; I am afraid it is a very small rushlight in some, and that it is almost blown out by their evil habits. They can even make themselves think that they are doing right, when they are as wrong as wrong can be; but in a child of God there is a burning and a shining light which reveals the truth concerning sin. There is within him a something that cannot be silenced; this is that principle or power which John Bunyan calls in his Holy War, "Mr. Conscience the Recorder of Mansoul." You know that, when the city of Mansoul rebelled against the great King Shaddai, and came under the sway of Diabolus, they shut Mr. Recorder Conscience up in a dark room, for they did not want to let him see what was being done. Yet, notwithstanding, when the old gentleman had his fits, he used to sorely trouble the inhabitants of the guilty town, so they kept him under lock and key as much as possible. But when Mr. Recorder Conscience gets full liberty, and lifts his brow into the sunlight, ah! sirs, then are we guided in a very different way from that of ungodly men who follow their own evil course. Then does the Lord say, "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." The law is there to censure or to cheer; it is there to let us hear its voice say, "This is the way, walk ye in it;" or it is there to say, "Stay where you are, go no farther;" or, "Return, thou backsliding daughter, and seek mercy of the Lord." ~ Charles Spurgeon

This, dear friends, is to have the law of the Lord written in your heart so as to delight in it after the inward man, and to delight to practice it with the outward man, daily striving to make the entire life to be in accordance with the dictates of God's will. O brothers, is it not a wonderful thing that God shall ever make it as natural for us to be holy as once it was natural for us to be unholy, and that then we shall find it as much a joy to serve him as once we thought it a pleasure not to serve him, when, indeed, to deny ourselves shall cease to be self-denial? It shall enjoyment to us to be nothing it shall be delight to renounce everything of self and to cling close to God, and to walk in his ways. Then will be fulfilled in our experience the promise of our text, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts ~ Charles Spurgeon

O you poor sinners, I may exhort you to keep the law; but, without the Spirit of Cod working within you, nothing will come of it! But if God puts his law into your hearts, then you will keep it. Oh, that he might even now lead you to his dear Son, that you might see his law in the hand of Christ, and then feel that pierced hand dropping it into your heart to abide there for ever! ~ Charles Spurgeon

This is the only way of salvation that I know of for any of you. First, you must be washed in the fountain filled with blood; and next, you must have the law of God written in your inward parts. Then shall you be safe beyond fear of ruin. "They shall be mine," saith the Lord of hosts, "in that day when I make up my jewels." Oh, blessed plan of salvation! May it be accepted by every man and woman here! And it can only be so by the work of the Spirit of God leading you to a simple trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust Christ to save you, and he will do it, as surely as he is the Christ of God. God help you to trust him now! Amen. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon “We are invited, brethren, most earnestly to go away from the old-fashioned belief of our forefathers because of the supposed discoveries of science. What is science? The method by which man tries to hide his ignorance. It
should not be so, but so it is. You are not to be dogmatical in theology, my brethren, it is wicked; but for scientific men it is the correct thing. You are never to assert anything very strongly; but scientists may boldly assert
what they cannot prove, and may demand a faith far more credulous than
any we possess. Forsooth, you and I are to take our Bibles and shape and
mould our belief according to the ever-shifting teachings of so-called scientific
men.What folly is this! Why, the march of science, falsely so called,
through the world may be traced by exploded fallacies and abandoned
theories. Former explorers once adored are now ridiculed; the continual
wreckings of false hypotheses is a matter of universal notoriety. You may
tell where the supposed learned have encamped by the debris left behind
of suppositions and theories as plentiful as broken bottles.”

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
-Charles Spurgeon

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
-Charles Spurgeon

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
-Charles Spurgeon

"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
-Charles Spurgeon

"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."
-Charles Spurgeon

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."
-Charles Spurgeon

"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 Spuregon

From the cross of Calvary-where the bleeding hands of Jesus drop mercy-the cry comes, "Look unto Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth!" From Calvary's summit, where Jesus cries, "It is finished!" I hear a shout, "Look unto Me, and be saved!" But there comes a vile cry from our soul, "No, look to yourself! Look to yourself!" Ah, look to yourself-and you will certainly be damned! As long as you look to yourself-there is no hope for you. It is not a consideration of what you are-but a consideration of what Christ is, that can save you. You must look away from yourself, and to Jesus! Oh! there are many who quite misunderstand the gospel; they think that their good works qualify them to come to Christ; whereas SIN is the only qualification for man to come to Jesus! "It is not the healthy who need a doctor-but the sick!" Matthew 9:12
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Do not try to count your sins—your arithmetic will fail you if you attempt such a task as that! But if it will benefit you to go over the transgressions of your life from your youth up even until now, do so with repentant heart. And when you have added them up as best you can, and tried to conceive the total sum of your iniquities, then write at the bottom, 'But the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification'—'from many offenses'—however many they may be—though they should outnumber the sands on the seashore, or the drops that make up the ocean, yet the free gift of Divine pardon sweeps them all away!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"We fall into grievous error when we entertain this kind of idea! God's ways are diverse — from the beginning to the end, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and our Lord Jesus Christ act sovereignly and do not choose to follow one particular mode of action in every case." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"O you legalists who are looking to yourselves for some arguments with which to prevail with God! O you who look to your sacraments, to your outward forms, to your pious deeds and your almsgivings for something that will move the heart of God—know this, that these things are no lever that can ever move Him to love! Nothing but your sin and misery can ever stir His mercy! And you look to the wrong place when you look to your merits to find a plea why He should show pity upon you!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care . . . not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock!" 1 Peter 5:2-3

We preachers must be examples to the flock. He who cannot be safely imitated, ought not to be tolerated in a pulpit!

Did I hear of a minister who was always striving for pre-eminence? Or of another who was covetous? Or of a third whose life was not always chaste? Or of a fourth who did not rise, as a rule, until eleven o'clock in the morning? I would hope that this last rumor was altogether false. An idle minister! What will become of him? Does he expect to go to heaven? I was about to say, "If he does go there at all—may it be soon!" A lazy minister is a creature despised by men—and abhorred by God!
~ Charles Spurgeon

"I have loved you, My people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to Myself!" Jeremiah 31:3 He loved you without beginning. Before years, and centuries, and millenniums began to be counted—your name was on His heart! Eternal thoughts of love have been in God's bosom towards you. He has loved you without a pause; there never was a minute in which He did not love you. Your name once engraved upon His hands—has never been erased, nor will He ever blot it out of the Book of Life. ~ Charles Spurgeon

"Ah, my Brothers and Sisters, Christ's eyes look in the opposite direction to ours. We usually look for some goodness on the part of men before we help them, but He looks to their sin, degradation and need. He is kind to the unthankful and the evil. He justifies those who are not, in themselves, just — while we were dead in trespasses and sins, 'in due time Christ died for the ungodly.' Grace, pure Grace, abounds in Him and is blessedly manifested in His mission of saving the lost."
~ Charles Spurgeon

"Despite all the doctrines which proud free-will has manufactured, there has never been found from Adam’s day until now a single instance in which the sinner first sought his God. God must first seek him." ~ Charles Spurgeon

"But they did not know who He was." Luke 24:16 The disciples ought to have recognized Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is amazing that they did not know Him. Yet is it not so with you also? Have you seen Jesus lately? You have been to His table—and you have not met Him there. You are in a dark trouble, and though He plainly says, "It is I—do not be afraid," yet you do not recognize Him. Alas! our eyes are blinded! We know His voice; we have looked into His face; we have leaned our head upon His bosom—and yet, though Christ is very near us, we are saying, "O that I knew where I might find Him!" ~ Charles Spurgeon