Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Scripture

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  Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Book

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

• Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, God, Christian

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “The Greatest Fight in the World”, p.10, Gideon House Books

• The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Faith, God

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.43, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lions, Scripture, Heard

• Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Book, Years

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027”, p.762, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Biblical, Winning, Men

• If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Cutting, Pieces

  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

• Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Heart, Biblical

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

• Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trying, Want, Scripture

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.604, Barbour Publishing

• Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Writing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

• If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Cutting, Scripture, Ifs

• I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his
  plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go
  about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Dog, Believe

• The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Bible, God

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.332, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Men, Thank God

• To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “Spiritual Warfare in a Believer's Life”, p.81, YWAM Publishing

• Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Believe, Secret

• The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Taken, Promise

• Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Adversity, Fire, Secret

• The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Men, Trying

• You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Needs, Scripture, Should

• The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Doe, Scripture

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1862). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”, p.346

• No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation.
  The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double,
  but sevenfold;
  they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Flower, Garden

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on the New Testament”, p.1483, Titus Books

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