Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Suffering

• There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.36, Barbour Publishing

• A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Clouds

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.151, Hendrickson Publishers

• There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Suffering, Sorrow

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• 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

• Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Loss, Filling Up

• Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Soul, Suffering

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.216, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Grieving, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 52: Sermons 2968-3019”, p.237, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Lust, Suffering

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.627, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Suffering, Earth, Sickness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

• Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Religious, Men

• No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Suffering, Miserable Person, Wealth

• 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”

• It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Kings, Giving Up

• Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Suffering, Sorrow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.533

• Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Harvest Time, Suffering

• The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnifi ed!' This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

• It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Suffering, Doubt

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.107, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hurt, Cat, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 72: John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.85, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

• It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Eye, Men

• Suffering saints are living seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Suffering, Saint, Seeds

• When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Views, People

  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

• To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Suffering, Sorrow

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