Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

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

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.