The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

our far-reaching objective isn’t the revision of opinions but the regeneration of natures.

Very often when converts are born in excitement, they die when the excitement is over.

It’s a horrible thing for a man to be so doctrinal and cerebral that he can speak coolly of the doom of the wicked. He experiences no anguish of heart to think of the ruin of millions of people. That’s horrible.

A sinner has a heart as well as a head – emotions and thoughts. And we must appeal to both.

I implore you to speak from your hearts or else don’t speak at all.

it’s not so much that you have hold of your subject, but that it has a hold on you,

seek to get out of the Scriptures what the Holy Spirit has put into them.

There ought to be enough of the gospel in every sermon to save a soul.

I pray you go to them, not treating them as someone sleeping who you can awaken by your own power, but as to spiritual corpses who can only be made alive by a divine power.

the man who lives in the faith zone dwells in the realm of miracles.

A dying man is needed to raise dying men.

What would you give to cause a thrill of pleasure in the heart of the beloved Redeemer?