Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

About Charles Spurgeon:

Charles Haddon is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
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Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Charles Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither.

Charles Spurgeon

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Charles Spurgeon

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Charles Spurgeon

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Charles Spurgeon

Author Bio

  • NameCharles Spurgeon
  • DescriptionBritish Preacher, author, Pastor, Evangelist
  • BornJune 19, 1834
  • DiedJanuary 31, 1892
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPreacher; Theologian; Autobiographer; Cleric