Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Preaching

• I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1966). “Sermons on the Gospel of John”

• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Regret, Godly

• It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Strong, Doctrine

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.7, Lulu.com

• Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles, Spurgeon H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religion, Dull, Originality

• Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Passion, Fire, Pathos

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “The Two Wesleys: On John and Charles Wesley”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you. Why should he? Has he not come on purpose that he may testify of Christ? Did not Jesus say, ‘He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you’? Yes, the subject was Christ, and nothing but Christ, and such is the teaching which the Spirit of God will own. Be it ours never to wander from this central point: may we determine to know nothing among men but Christ and his cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

• The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Servant Of God, Religion

• We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Play, Eternity, Preaching

• Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Names

• When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Touching, Needs, May

• You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Depth, Sin

• A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Beginning Middle And End, Execution

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

• The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Devil, Sound, Hell

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Lasts

• What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Shining

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.129, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

• My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Energy, Might

• I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Nicknames, Opinion, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.64, Barbour Publishing

• Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

  Charles Spurgeon

  Woe, Fit, Christianity

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

• We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Responsibility

• It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Force

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.153, Lulu Press, Inc

• When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loss, Opportunity

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 80”, p.273, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Conviction, Backbone

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.756, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Men, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.43, Whitaker House

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