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There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon
Giving, Heaven, Littles

Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.

Charles Spurgeon
Mother, Kings, Angel
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Sermons Preached and Revised by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, Fifth Series. New York, Sheldon”, p.20

The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.

Charles Spurgeon
Betrayal, Evil, May

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Men, Ministry
Charles H. Spurgeon (2018). “Words of Counsel: For All Leaders, Teachers, and Evangelists”, p.40, Aneko Press

There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Promise, Covenant
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.404

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

Charles Spurgeon
Children, Father, Writing
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Prayer, Men

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 Spurgeon
Determination, Believe, People

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

Charles Spurgeon
Wise, Book, Men

["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Cutting, Weather

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

Charles Spurgeon
Might, Christ, Fountain
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

Charles Spurgeon
Selfish, Lying, World

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Charles Spurgeon
Taken, Thinking, Voice
Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.280, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1877). “Lectures To My Students”, p.12, Fig

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon
Perseverance, Cat, May

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Men, Sheep
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1877). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.355

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Charles Spurgeon
Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude
Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon
Long, People, Giving
Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.5, Whitaker House

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon
Home, Heaven, Tonight

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Charles Spurgeon
Character, Way, Certain
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.408

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Charles Spurgeon
Soul, Glory, Salvation
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Charles Spurgeon
Heaven, Mind, Rags
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Charles Spurgeon
Voice, Ministry, Ill
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.18, Harper Collins

Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

Charles Spurgeon
Pain, Loss, Filling Up

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon
Teaching, Thinking, Hands

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