Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

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

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

Too many times we think we've fallen too far from God or we're not worthy.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"