Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

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

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Only sinners need saviors.

At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. ... In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up. Through our repentance and the gift of the Atonement, we can prepare to be worthy to stand in His presence.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.