Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.