Charles Simeon Quotes

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.