Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Age

• If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Men, Average

• We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

• I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Rocks, Age

• Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511

• Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Medicine, Age

• It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reading, Age, Praying

• Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Age, Amusement, Serious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

• The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Flames, Age

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 149), 1895.

• The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Fall, Illustration

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.37, Destiny Image Publishers

• It is not well to make great changes in old age.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Change, Age, Wells

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