Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.

We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

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.