Quotes About Spurgeon

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

Charles Spurgeon said of 1 Timothy 1:11, "The Gospel is also the Gospel of happiness. It is called 'the glorious Gospel of the blessed God.' A more correct translation would be, 'the happy God.' Well, then, adorn the Gospel by being happy!"[17]

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Charles Spurgeon was a fierce opponent of social injustice, especially slavery, and joined other evangelicals in crusades to eliminate poverty, hunger, and homelessness, especially for children.

Charles Spurgeon underscored this point, saying, "For every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis of the Scriptures, that is Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, 'Now what is the road to Christ?' . . . I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it."51

Spurgeon once said, "Faults are thick where love is thin.

The Bible clearly teaches God's sovereignty and human responsibility. The great Charles H. Spurgeon of London was asked to reconcile these two truths. He answered, "I wouldn't try. I never reconcile friends.

Once, while visiting the continent, Spurgeon was asked about the secret of his ministry. After a moment s pause Mr. Spurgeon said, "My people pray for me.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he "addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

While some who do not hold to Spurgeon's view of the doctrines of grace might wonder how he could be a Calvinist and yet be evangelistic, Lawson clearly demonstrates that the prince of preachers was a bold evangelist precisely because of his Calvinism.

3 Charles H. Spurgeon, "Election", sermón sobre 2 Tesalonicenses 2:13-14, predicado el 2 de septiembre de 1855; citado por David Steele y Curtis Thomas, The Five Points of Calvinism (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963),

Spurgeon was once asked how he could reconcile the apparent contradiction between these two truths. He replied: "I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together."2

If twentieth-century literature failed Spurgeon anywhere, it failed to produce scholars interested in constructing three-dimensional portraits of the preacher, flaws and all.12 Warts can be as informative as dimples.

Charles H. Spurgeon, in his wry way, once declared, "I daresay the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness."[25]