1. “It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
2. “Without Christ there is no hope.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
3. “Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
4. “How despicable our troubles and trials will seem when we look back upon them!” – Charles H. Spurgeon
5. “The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?” – Charles H. Spurgeon
6. “My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
7. “Prayer can never be in excess.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
8. “It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
9. “Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
10. “The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
11. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness” – Charles H. Spurgeon
12. “When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
13. “Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
14. “Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
15. “A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
16. “Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
17. “Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
18. “When your will is God’s will, you will have your will.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
19. “I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
20. “The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
21. “Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
22. “The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
23. “To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
24. “It is a sweet mercy to have to go through the floods, if some filthiness may thereby be removed.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
25. “You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
26. “To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
27. “If you have little trouble, you will have little faith but if you have great faith, you must expect to have great trouble.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
28. “Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
29. “Someone asked, Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
30. “Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
31. “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
32. “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
33. “Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
34. “There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
35. “Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
36. “If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?” – Charles H. Spurgeon
37. “No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
38. “The Bible is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. You just have to let it loose.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
39. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
40. “Dash yourself with gasoline, strike a match, set yourself on fire, and people will come watch you burn” – Charles H. Spurgeon
41. “There is so much dirty linen in our own house needing to be washed that none of us need to take in our neighbor’s washing.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
42. “If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
43. “Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
44. “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
45. “Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
46. “God helps those who cannot help themselves.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
47. “If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
48. “A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats” – Charles H. Spurgeon
49. “Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip” – Charles H. Spurgeon
50. “God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
51. “A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
52. “The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
53. “never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
54. “The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
55. “I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
56. “Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
57. “The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
58. “I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
59. “We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
60. “Our life, like April weather, is made up of sunshine and showers.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
61. “Of two evils, choose neither.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
62. “No matter what good truths you have to teach, no one will thank you if you do not speak kindly.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
63. “It is the bold Christian who can sing God’s sonnets in the darkness.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
64. “Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
65. “The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
66. “Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
67. “Steer to God right away; fly to him, and you will find a peaceful shelter.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
68. “No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
69. “Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
70. “Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
71. “If you never go anywhere but where Christ leads the way, you need not be afraid of storms, for they will beat upon him more than upon you.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
72. “If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
73. “Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
74. “You will not only hold your hope — that is your duty, but your hope will hold you — that is your privilege.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
75. “There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
76. “I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
77. “We are not responsible to God for the souls that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
78. “Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
79. “The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
80. “The world’s one and only remedy is the cross.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
81. “Suffering saints are living seed.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
82. “Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
83. “Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
84. “Let us be afraid of having nothing to do, and be thankful for something to suffer.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
85. “It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
86. “To descend may sometimes be the shortest way to ascend.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
87. “Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
88. “Your victory will come with your song.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
89. “Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
90. “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
91. “He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
92. “Storms afford the safest sailing for a Christian, calms are for him more terrible than whirlwinds.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
93. “The further we are on the road, the less there is of it to bear.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
94. “When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
95. “I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
96. “The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
97. “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
98. “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 H. Spurgeon
99. “Times of trouble send our hope deep down into fundamental truths.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
100. “Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
101. “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
102. “You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
103. “Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
104. “Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
105. “When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
106. “Fighting sheep are strange animals, and fighting Christians are self-evident contradictions.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
107. “Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
108. “No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
109. “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
110. “Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
111. “The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
112. “Faith is reason at rest in God.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
113. “The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
114. “The more the wind rages the more you feel that the anchor holds you.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
115. “We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
116. “Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
117. “Storms help to make the sailors sturdy, and trials help to make Christians strong in faith.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
118. “I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
119. “Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
120. “True friends put enough trust in you to tell you openly of your faults.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
121. “Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
122. “The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
123. “Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
124. “Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
125. “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!” – Charles H. Spurgeon
126. “You always need divine protection, and, believer in Christ, you shall always have it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
127. “Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.” – Charles H. Spurgeon