The Quotable Spurgeon

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if the will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unsprayed for.”

“Gratitude is the only fountain of acceptable service; without it, the streams are far to defiled to flow in the paradise of God.”

“If God has called you to be a missionary, your Father would be grieved for you to shrivel down into a king.”

“The gate of Heaven, though it is so wide that the greatest sinner may enter, is nevertheless so low that pride can never pass through it.”

“You and I must continue to drive at men’s hearts till they are broken. Then we must keep on preaching Christ crucified until their hearts are bound up.”

“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.”

“If you wish to know God, you must know His Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by His Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”

“Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.”

“Some have used the terrors of the Lord to terrify, but Paul used them to persuade.”

“Men have been helped to live by remembering that they must die.”

“I am told that Christians do not love each other. I am very sorry if that be true, but I rather doubt it, for I suspect that those who do not love each other are not Christians.”

“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself!”

“Preach with this object, that men may quit their sins and fly to Christ for pardon, that by His blessed Spirit they may be renovated and become as much in love with everything that is holy as they are now in love with everything that is sinful.”