Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Do not go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautifl architecture, go where the gospel is preached and go often.
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Do not try to make the Gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
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Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
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Gospel tracts are fantastic for young people or any Christians who have but little power and little ability, but nevertheless, wish to do something for Christ. They have not the tongue of the eloquent, but they may have the hand of the diligent. They cannot stand and preach but they can stand and distribute here and there these silent preachers.
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I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus than unravel all the mysteries of the divine word, for salvation is what we are to live fore.
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If I was saved by a simple gospel, then I am bound to preach that same simple gospel 'till I die, so that others may be saved by it. When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus, put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
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If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned or unprayed for.
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If you have no desire to bring others to Heaven, you are not going there yourself.
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If you long to save men's souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable truth."
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It is easy to bring a man to the river of regret, but you cannot make him drink the water of repentance.
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It is God's Word, not our comment on God's Word, which saves souls. The Word of God is powerful for all sacred ends.
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Man, until sovereign grace opens his ears, is deaf to the heavenly harmonies of the love of God in Christ Jesus.
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Preach Christ, that is the magnet; He will draw His own to Himself.
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Satan tells me I am unworthy. But I always was unworthy, and yet you have long loved me. So my unworthiness cannot stop me from having fellowship with you now.
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Soulwinning is the chief business of the Christian minister; indeed, it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
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The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul.
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The greatest moments in history are not battles of conquerors, but the preaching of the Gospel.
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The greatest of all miracles is the salvation of a soul.
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The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.
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The Law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride. The Gospel is for the Lost, to remove their despair.
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The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the gospel.
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The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.
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The true minister of Christ feels impelled to preach the whole truth, because it and it alone can meet the wants of man. What evils has this world seen through a distorted, mangled, man-moulded gospel.
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To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.
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Tracts have done more for the salvation of souls than all the sermons that have ever been preached.
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Until God gives me the roll call of the elect, I am going to preach the "whosoever will" gospel. That is the gospel we are to preach today.
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We are not saved by obedience, for obedience is the result of salvation. We are saved by faith because faith leads us to obey.
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We hear complaints that the minister speaks too harshly and talks too much of judgment. Saved sinners never make that complaint.
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When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready. Get good striking tracts or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore do not go out without your tracts.
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While others are congratulating themselves, I have to sit humbly at the foot of the cross and marvel that I'm saved at all.
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