Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

Your soul is between you and God.

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.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

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

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.