Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Evil

• If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, My Best Friend, Sake

  "Collected Works".

• Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Sin, Good Work

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.433, Lulu Press, Inc

• Of two evils, choose neither.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Two, Evil

• Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long Ago, Evil, Minorities

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.745, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, My Best Friend, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.160, Lulu.com

• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• 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 Spurgeon

  Evil, Would Be, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power in Praising God”, Whitaker Distribution

• I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dog, Thinking, Sheep

• Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Evil, Needs

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

• A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2004). “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus”, p.294, Hendrickson Publishers

• We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Evil, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

• It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Birth Place, Evil

• A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grieving, Men

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027".

• 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 Spurgeon

  Ocean, Evil, Suffering

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Laughter, Men, Evil

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.716, Discovery House

• Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: An Autobiography”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Fear, Real

  Charles Spurgeon (2017). “God Always Cares”, p.20, Gideon House Books

• If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Would Be, Action

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.593, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eggs, White, Evil

• The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Evil

• The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Evil, Brave

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.55, Destiny Image Publishers

• We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Evil

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.322, New Leaf Publishing Group

• The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Men, Sight

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