Charles Simeon Quotes

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.

As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.