Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Poverty

• Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Weakness

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

• Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Kings, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.56, Zondervan

• If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy! Your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms! And your need is the motive for heavenly goodness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Feelings, Needs, Ruins

  "Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 12: 1866".

• A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Secret, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.94, YWAM Publishing

• Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Condolences, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Love of God”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

• 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

• One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Night

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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