Charles Spurgeon

Who was Charles Spurgeon?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.

It is estimated that in his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1857, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously.

Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime.

Famous Quotes:

• Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
• Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
• The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
• By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
• Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
• You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
• We are all at times unconscious prophets.