Around the Wicket Gate Quotes

“Great numbers of persons have no concern about eternal things. They care more about their cats and dogs than about their souls.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“A man who is thirsty stands before a fountain. "No," he says, "I will never touch a drop of moisture as long as I live. Cannot I get my thirst quenched in my own way?" We tell him, no; he must drink or die. He says, "I will never drink; but it is a hard thing that I must therefore die. It is a bigoted, cruel thing to tell me so." He is wrong. His thirst is the inevitable result of neglecting a law of nature. You, too, must believe or die; why refuse to obey the command? Drink, man, drink! Take Christ and live.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“Thus would I urge the reader to seek faith; but if he be unwilling, what more can I do? I have brought the horse to the water, but I cannot make him drink. This, however, be it remembered—unbelief is wilful when evidence is put in a man’s way, and he refuses carefully to examine it. He that does not desire to know, and accept the truth, has himself to thank if he dies with a lie in his right hand.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“In Mark 16:16 the Lord Jesus says, He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Believe and Be Saved: Or, Around the Wicket Gate

“A person who is at enmity with another will be saved from that feeling of enmity by believing in the Lord Jesus, but if he vows that he will still cherish the feeling of hate, it is doubtful that he is saved from it. He may not have believed in the Lord Jesus unto salvation.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Believe and Be Saved: Or, Around the Wicket Gate

“Men dream that heroes are only to be made on special occasions, once or twice in a century; but in truth the finest heroes are home-spun, and are more often hidden in obscurity than platformed by public observation. Trust in the living God is the bullion out of which heroism is coined. Perseverance in well-doing is one of the fields in which faith grows not flowers, but the wheat of her harvest. Plodding on in hard work, bringing up a family on a few shillings a week, bearing constant pain with patience, and so forth—these are the feats of valour through which God is glorified by the rank and file of His believing people.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“I bear in my soul the proofs of the Spirit’s truth and power, and I will have none of your artful reasonings. The gospel to me is truth: I am content to perish if it be not true. I risk my soul’s eternal fate upon the truth of the gospel, and I know that there is no risk in it. My one concern is to keep the lights burning, that I may thereby benefit others. Only let the Lord give me oil enough to feed my lamp, so that I may cast a ray across the dark and treacherous sea of life, and I am well content.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“Faith is trusting, trusting wholly upon the person, work, merit, and power of the Son of God. Some think this trusting is a romantic business, but indeed it is the simplest thing that can possibly be.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“By nature we do not like the anxiety which spiritual concern causes us, and we try, like sluggards, to sleep again.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate