The Soul Winner Quotes

“The best attraction is the gospel in its purity. The weapon with which the Lord conquers men is the truth as it is in Jesus. The gospel will be found equal to every emergency; an arrow which can pierce the hardest heart, a balm which will heal the deadliest wound.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner : or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“and what I have said of soul-winners, belongs not to the learned doctor of divinity, or to the eloquent preacher alone, but to you all who are in Christ Jesus.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“Every man here, every woman here, every child here whose heart is right with God, may be a soul-winner.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“After praying, Elisha implemented the actions. Prayer and action must go together. Action without prayer - presumption. Prayer - without action - hypocrisy.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“A încerca să câștigi un suflet pentru Hristos prin a păstra acel suflet în necunoașterea vreunui adevăr divin este un lucru contrar gândului Duhului, iar a te strădui să mântuiești oamenii prin simple baliverne, agitații emoționale sau spectacol oratoric este un lucru la fel de nebunesc pe cât ai putea trage nădejdea să prinzi un înger într-o plasă de țânțari sau că ai putea momi o stea să te urmeze folosind un cântec. Cea mai bună atracție este Evanghelia în puritatea ei,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“Let me ask you a question. What would you give to cause a thrill of pleasure in the heart of the beloved Redeemer? Remember the grief you cost Him and the pangs which shot through Him on your account, so He might deliver you from your sin and its consequences. Don’t you long to make Him glad? When you bring others to His feet, you give Him joy.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“God will not use dead tools for working living miracles;”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“The increase of the kingdom is more to be desired than the growth of a clan.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner : or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“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 H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“seek them with prayers, and tears, and entreaties, if peradventure God may grant them repentance that they may be saved.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner: or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour (with active table of contents) [Annotated]

“However, if we produce a world of total abstainers and leave them all unbelievers, we have failed. We must drive at something more than temperance, because we believe men must be born again. It's good that even a corpse should be clean. Therefore, the unregenerate should be moral. It would be a great blessing if they were cleansed of the vices which make this world reek in the nostrils of God and good men. But that's not the focus of our work, which is to see the dead in sin live, that they be made alive with spiritual life, and that Christ would reign in lives where the prince of the power of the air now has sway.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“First, regeneration is displayed in conviction of sin. We believe this to be an indispensable mark of the Spirit's work.

One of the first effects of the new life as it enters the heart is intense inward pain in regards to sin. However, nowadays, we hear of people being healed before they have been wounded, and being brought into a certainty of justification without ever having lamented their condemnation.

We are very skeptical as to the value of such healings and views of justification, because this style or methodology is not practiced according to the truth. God never clothes men until He has first stripped them, nor does He make them alive through the gospel until they first are slain by the law.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“So, I advise you to fight unbelief with belief, falsehood with the truth, and never to cut and pare down the gospel to try to make it fit in with the irrationalities and desires of men.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

“I implore you to speak from your hearts or else don’t speak at all.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“And don’t believe that when you go into revival meetings, or special evangelistic services, that it’s permissible to leave the doctrines out of the gospel. If anything, for such occasions you ought to proclaim the doctrines of grace more, rather than less.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“I don’t delight in religion which needs or creates an impulsive, hotheaded convert. Give me godliness which flourishes upon Calvary rather than upon Vesuvius. The greatest zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason, while raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge (Romans 10:2).”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“the most likely instrument to do the Lord’s work is the man who expects God will use him and who goes forth to labor in the strength of that conviction”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“The greatest strength of the sermon lies in what has gone before the sermon. You must get ready for the whole service through private fellowship with God and real holiness of character.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“let a man become really holy, and, even if he only has the slightest ability, he will be a more fit instrument in God’s hand than the man of great acquired skills who is not obedient to divine will, nor clean and pure in the sight of the Lord God Almighty.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“A sinner will never be converted until his emotions are stirred. Unless he feels sorrow for sin, and unless he has some measure of joy in the reception of the Word, you can’t have much hope for him. The Truth must soak into the soul and dye it with its own color.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner (Updated, Annotated): How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“it is supposed that there will be no conversions if he preaches the whole counsel of God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner : or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“In God’s school, the teachers must be masters of the art of holiness. If we teach one thing by our lips and another by our lives, those who listen to us will say, “Physician, heal thyself.” “Thou sayest, ‘Repent.’ Where is thine own repentance? Thou sayest, ‘Serve God, and be obedient to His will.’ Do you serve Him? Are you obedient to His will?” An unholy ministry would be the derision of the world, and a dishonour to God. “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” He will speak through a fool if he be but a holy man. I do not, of course, mean that God chooses fools to be His ministers; but let a man once become really holy, even though he has but the slenderest possible ability, he will be a more fit instrument in God’s hand than the man of gigantic acquirements, who is not obedient to the divine will, nor clean and pure in the sight of the Lord God Almighty.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“Hence, if we do not teach men something, we may shout, “Believe! Believe! Believe!” but what are they to believe? Each exhortation requires a corresponding instruction, or it will mean nothing. “Escape!” From what? This requires for its answer the doctrine of the punishment of sin. “Fly!” But whither? Then must you preach Christ, and His wounds; yea, and the clear doctrine of atonement by sacrifice. “Repent!” Of what? Here you must answer such questions as, What is sin? What is the evil of sin? What are the consequences of sin ? “Be converted!” But what is it to be converted? By what power can we be converted? What from? What to? The field of instruction is wide if men are to be made to know the truth which saves.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“The utmost zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason: raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

“To introduce unconverted persons to the church, is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner: or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour (with active table of contents) [Annotated]

“the chief business of the Christian minister.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Soul-Winner: or How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour (with active table of contents) [Annotated]