All Of Grace (Moody Classics)

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride; the Gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.

The sinner is the Gospel’s reason for existence. If you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the Gospel is ordained and arranged and proclaimed. God justifies the ungodly.

If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.

If you will have Jesus, He has you already.

We want to be purified as well as pardoned. Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.

The Lord knows very well that you cannot change your own heart and cannot cleanse your own nature, but He also knows that He can do both.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

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

“Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it; but it is not the price which buys it.”

Repentance will not make you see Christ, but to see Christ will give you repentance.

It is not great faith but true faith that saves, and salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.

Much more will the divine explanation of the hard points of Scripture satisfy the heart of the true seeker. The Lord is willing to make Himself known; go to Him and see if it is not so. Go at once to your closet and cry, “O Holy Spirit, lead me into the truth! What I know not, teach Thou me.”

It is because you still have a quarrel with God and resolve to have your own will and your own way that therefore you cannot believe.

Yield to your God, and then shall you sweetly believe in your Saviour.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

If you begin in the Spirit you must not hope to be made perfect by the flesh. Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.

One of these days you who are now a “babe” in Christ shall be a “father” in the Church. Hope for this great thing, but hope for it as a gift of grace and not as the wages of work or as the product of your own energy.

The saints shall persevere in holiness because God perseveres in grace.