Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

I believe in Jesus Christ.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

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

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.