Charles H. Spurgeon — in their own words

We are not going to talk about law, and duty, and punishment, but about love, and goodness, and forgiveness, and mercy, and eternal life.

Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.

Our Lord Jesus did not die for imaginary sins, but His heart's blood was spilt to wash out deep crimson stains, which nothing else can remove.

Jesus Christ, made sin for me, was what I saw, and that sight gave me rest.

The Lord cannot read our pardon written in the blood of His own Son, and then smite us.

The righteousness of faith is not the moral excellence of faith, but the righteousness of Jesus Christ which faith grasps and appropriates.

The Lord's salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Jesus Christ is to them a Saviour strong and mighty, a Rock immovable and immutable; they cling to him for dear life, and this clinging saves them.

Faith which refuses to obey the commands of the Saviour is a mere pretence, and will never save the soul.

You need not, therefore, despair: that which is necessary to salvation is not continuous thought, but a simple reliance upon Jesus.

Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins.

Jesus has nothing which He will not use for a sinner's salvation, and He is nothing which He will not display in the aboundings of His grace.

Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies.

Jesus is exalted on high, that through the virtue of His intercession repentance may have a place before God.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction.

The Lord is able, not only to save us from hell, but to keep us from falling.

Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.

Our awakenings are not to help the Saviour, but to help us to the Saviour.

Salvation is not by our knowing our own ruin, but by fully grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus.

Faith saves us because it makes us cling to Christ Jesus, and he is one with God, and thus brings us into connection with God.

Trust Christ, and by that trust you grasp salvation and eternal life.

Come by faith to Jesus, for without him you perish for ever.

Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ's reconciliation to the sore of our sin.

The Lord Jesus has come to save us from sinning; and if we are resolved to go on sinning, Christ and our souls will never agree.

Faith was Peter's life-buoy—it kept him up; but unbelief sent him down.

We are saved by faith, and not by feeling; yet there is a relation between holy faith and hallowed feeling like that between the root and the flower.

Little-faith was bought with the blood of Christ; ay, and he cost as much as Great-faith.

God's people are often chastened, and the Lord's hand lieth heavy upon them; yet there is paternal goodness in their chastenings, and infinite lovingkindness in their tribulations.

Not one sin is to be spared, but against the whole is to be proclaimed an utter and entire war of extermination.

Seek that you may keep your conversation always holy; that your course may be like the shining light which tarries not, but burns brighter and brighter until the fulness of the day.

Do you think that we are forever to be the drudges and the slaves of sin, sighing for freedom, and yet never able to escape from its bondage?

The Christian's life is one of daily dependence on the grace and strength of God.

He who delights in the possession of the Lord Jesus hath all that heart can wish.

It is the distinguishing mark of God's people that they know the love of Christ.

If we have grown in grace, it is absolutely certain that we shall have advanced in our knowledge and reciprocation of the love of Christ.

The love of Christ casts not out the love of relatives, but it sanctifies our creature love, and makes it sweeter far.

Our court-dress in heaven, and our garment of sanctification for daily wear, are the condescending gifts of Christ's love.

Grace is always grace, but it never seems so gracious as when we see it brought to our unworthy selves.

The gospel is not a scheme of giving to God, but of receiving from God.

The Lord Jesus has led captivity captive, and now sits at the right hand of God, forever making intercession for us.

The prayer that this morning you offered, Christ is now offering before His Father's throne.

Not only must the heart be kept pure, but it must also be kept full.

Let a man truly know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and he will be a happy man; and the deeper he drinks into the Spirit of Christ, the happier will he become.

Christ, when He blesses, blesses not in word only, but in deed.

Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

It is ours to ask for a blessing, but not to define what the blessing shall be.

Your business is to seek Christ crucified for yourselves, not to take the representation of another man concerning the power of grace to subdue corruption and to sanctify the heart.

Christ in the heart, means Christ believed in, Christ beloved, Christ trusted, Christ espoused, Christ communed with, Christ as our daily food, and ourselves as the temple and palace wherein Jesus Christ daily walks.

Though they know a little about Christ on Calvary, they know nothing about Christ in the heart.

You will never perceive God in nature, until you have learned to see God in grace.

How careful God is of His people; how anxious He is concerning them, not only for their life, but for their comfort.

Unless the heart be kept peaceable, the life will not be happy.

The believer enjoys, in favored seasons, such an intimacy with the Lord Jesus, as fills his heart with an overflowing peace.

If thou wouldst find thy way to God's bright throne, find first thy way to Jesus' cross; if thou wouldst know the way to happiness, tread in that path of misery which Jesus trod.

Believers are not only to be with Christ, and to behold His glory, but they are to be like Christ, and to be glorified with Him.

You may read the Bible continuously, and yet never learn anything by it, unless it is illuminated by the Spirit; and then the words shine forth like stars.

There are some sciences that may be learned by the head, but the science of Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart.

We are not trees by ourselves, but we are branches fixed on the Living Vine.

Let us ever remember that Christ on the cross is of no value to us apart from the Holy Spirit in us.

There never yet was a heavenly thought, a hallowed deed, or a consecrated act, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, which was not worked in us by the Holy Spirit.

As the Lord hath but one family, written in one register, redeemed with one blood, quickened by one Spirit, so this whole household abides in one habitation evermore.

God will not lead you into temptation, but you may lead yourself.

Our duty is not determined by the character of our hearers but by the command of our God.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you, even you, will be saved.

Jesus Christ is the bread by which our soul’s best life is sustained.

Whether faith is large or small, whether you can do much or little for Christ, salvation depends not on what you are but on what Jesus Christ is.

Salvation does not come from the preacher’s authority, but through the hearer’s personal conviction, personal faith, and personal love.

Beloved, the Lord’s workers have sauce with their bread: not merely doctrines, but the holy joy that accompanies them.

Not only does God bear with sin, but in the person of his Son, he bore and removed it.

Come to Jesus, by quitting every other hope, by thinking of Him, believing God's testimony about Him, and trusting everything with Him.

The Lord may not give gold, but He will give grace: He may not give gain, but He will give grace.

Let us be humble that we may not need to be humbled, but may be exalted by the grace of God.

Our faithful God will never run back from His word, nor will He leave it unfulfilled; yet He loves to be enquired of by His people, and put in mind of His promise.

We view our God no more as Baal, our tyrant lord and mighty master, for we are not under law, but under grace.

Not for confession, nor for reformation, but in connection with them we find pardon by faith in the blood of Jesus.

God does not break the lock, but He opens it by a master-key which He alone can handle.

The Holy Ghost Himself cannot better glorify the Lord Jesus than by showing to us Christ's own things.

Come, my heart, be thou no more sick and sorry, Jesus bids thee be strong, and walk with God in holy contemplation.

Come, my soul, pluck up courage, and put down thy feet in the blood-marked footprints which thy Lord has left thee.

Trust not thyself nor any born of woman, beyond due bounds; but trust thou only and wholly in the Lord.

The Lord Jesus was unto us a covering for sin, and so a covert from wrath.

Look on the drops of grace, and remember that they distil from the Head, Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus is the only escape for a sinner pursued by the fiery wrath of God, and we would have the believer remember this.

Jesus identified Himself with His people, and therefore their sin was laid upon Him, and the sword of the Lord awoke against Him.

O soul, seek not a settlement by learning of men; but come and learn of Jesus, and thou shalt find rest!

Come utterly ruined and undone, for in Jesus Christ there is the strength and salvation which thy case requires.

Christ’s word of grace is very near you, it is on your tongue; let it go down into your inmost soul.

Our Lord Jesus did not handle sin with the golden tongs, but He bore it on His own shoulders.

Ah! what a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but his hold of you!

Pardon is a good thing—who will not say so?—ay, but we are pardoned through the precious blood of Jesus.

To be preserved—is not that a precious thing?—ay; but we are preserved in Christ Jesus, and kept by his power even to the end.

Our first business has not to do with faith, but with Christ.

God has given to his servants not the power of regeneration, but he has given them something akin to it.

God give us to be much in the holy art of arguing with God in prayer.

The Lord give you large mouths in prayer, great potency, not in the use of language, but in employing arguments.

One prayer coming from the soul is better than a myriad cold readings.

God’s Spirit is teaching you how to wrestle and agonize in prayer.