No man will ever put on the robe of righteousness till he is stripped of his fig leaves, nor will he wash in the fount of mercy till he perceives his filthiness. Therefore, my brethren, we must not cease to declare the law, its demands, its threatening, and the sinner’s multiple breachers of it.
– Charles H Spurgeon –
It is of no use trying to sew with the silken thread of the gospel unless we pierce a way for it with the sharp, needle of the law.
– Robbie Flockheart –
Charles H Spurgeon Sermon Conversion as Our Aim
“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”
1 Corinthians 9:22
What was Paul’s great object in his daily life and ministry? He says it was, to save some. There are ministers of Christ present at this hour, together with City missionaries, Bible-women, Sunday-school teachers, and other workers in my Master’s vineyard, and I make bold to enquire of each one of them,—Is this your object in all your Christian service? Do you above all things aim at saving souls?
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
In commencing any Christian work, novelty greatly assists enthusiasm, and it is very natural that under first impulses the beginner should achieve an easy success. The difficulty of the Christian is very seldom the commencement of the work; the true labor lies in the perseverance which alone can win the victory.
– Charles Spurgeon –
taken from Council for Christian Workers
God must perform the work, or else it never will be performed. Along the road from sin to heaven, from the first leaving of the swine-trough right up to the joyful entrance into the banquet, and the music and dancing of glorified spirits, every step we must be enabled to take by divine grace. Every good thing that is in a Christian, not merely begins, but progresses and is consummated by the fostering grace of God, through Jesus Christ.
If my finger were on the golden latch of paradise, and my foot were on its jasper threshold, I should not take the last step so as to enter heaven unless the grace which brought me so far should enable me full and fairly to complete my pilgrimage. Salvation is God’s work, not man’s.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Psalm 145 is called “David’s Psalm of praise,” and you will see that all through it he is inflamed by a strong desire that God may be greatly magnified. Hence he uses a variety of expressions, and repeats himself in his holy vehemence. Run your eye down the psalm and notice such words as these: “I will extol thee”; “I will bless thy name”; “Every day will I bless thee”; “I will praise thy name forever and ever”; “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised”; “One generation shall praise thy works, to another”; “I will speak of the glorious’ honor of thy majesty; “Men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts,” and other words of like import, down to the last verse’: “My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.”
David is not content with declaring that Jehovah is worthy of praise, or with pleading that his praise ought to be felt in the heart, but he will have it publicly spoken of, openly declared, plainly uttered, and joyfully proclaimed in song. The inspired Psalmist, moved by the Holy Ghost, calls upon all flesh, yea, and upon all the works of God to sound forth the praises of the Most High. Will we not heartily respond to the call?
– Charles Spurgeon –
taken from the book Spurgeon on Praise
I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.
– Charles Spurgeon –
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Believers must never adjust the Bible to the age, but the age to the Bible.
– Charles Spurgeon –