Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

My father was Presbyterian.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

I just love preaching.

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.