Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

I can't change what the word of God says.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.