Charles Spurgeon Quotes

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.