Charles Spurgeon Quotes

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.