Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to Him who understands it and say, "Lord, cleanse it. Lord, renew it. Lord, work repentance in it." The more you try to produce penitent emotions in yourself, the more you will be disappointed. However, if you believingly think of Jesus dying for you, repentance will burst forth.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonWherever the Lord makes a provision, we are quite sure that there was a need for it. No superfluities clutter the covenant of grace.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonWe are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...
Charles Haddon SpurgeonStichwörter: christianity spiritual-wisdom
The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human mythology, or dream of poetical imagination. This method of expiation is only known among men because it is a fact; fiction could not have devised it. God himself ordained it; it is not a matter which could have been imagined.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonFaith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonBegin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonThe saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonWe shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute in judgment, but they are as yet very immature in heart. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it. ... I know we who are young beginners in grace think ourselves qualified to reform the whole Christian church. We drag her before us, and condemn her straightway; but when our virtues become more mature, I trust we shall not be more tolerant of evil, but we shall be more tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for the people of God, and certainly less arrogant in our criticisms.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonStichwörter: cynicism humility criticism maturity bitterness judging
We have not only to be witnesses and pleaders, but we have also to be examples... If a man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should say nothing.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonSincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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