All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All Providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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 Haddon Spurgeon

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyan's were solid upon the central doctrines.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theater. If he is spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights center in our Beloved.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon