The Greatest Fight Quotes

“The Scriptures in their own sphere are like God in the universe – all-sufficient. All the light and power the mind of man can need in spiritual things is revealed in Scripture.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“We ought to prepare the sermon as if all depended on us, and then we are to trust the Spirit of God, knowing that all depends on Him.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“It is better to be silent before the Lord, than to dream of supplementing what He has spoken. The Word of the Lord is to the conceptions of men as a garden to a wilderness. Keep within the covers of the sacred book, and you are in the land which floweth with milk and honey; why seek to add to it the desert sands?”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“To forego your Bible reading for the perusal even of good books would soon bring a conscious descending of the soul.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“The Word is like its Author, infinite, immeasurable, without end.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“If a church does not pray, it is dead.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“No, no, brethren! We are a little detachment of the King's soldiers detained in a foreign country upon garrison duty; yet we mean not only to hold the Fort, but to add territory to our Lord's domain. We are not to be driven out; but, on the contrary, we are going to drive out the Canaanites; For this land belongs to us, it is given to us of the lord, and we will subdue it. May we be fired with the spirit of discoveries and conquerors, and never rest while there yet remains a class to be rescued, a region to be evangelized.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“You do not know the truth, my brother, because you have read “Hodges Outline”, or “Fuller’s Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation”; Or “Owen on the Spirit”, or any other classic of our faith. You do not know the truth, my brother, merely because you accept the Westminster Assembly's Confession, and have studied it perfectly. No, we know nothing till we are taught of the Holy Ghost who speaks to the heart rather than the ear.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“When the Spirit of God is gone, even truth itself becomes and iceberg. How wretched is religion frozen and lifeless! The Holy Ghost has gone, and all energy and enthusiasm have gone with him.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“..consciously and in very truth depend on the Holy Ghost. Even a sense of your need for Him He must give you; and the prayers with which you entreat Him to come must come from Him.”
― Charles Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World

“The man who is all aglow with love for Jesus finds little need for amusement. He has no time for unimportant things. He is exceptionally motivated to save souls, and establish the truth, and enlarge the kingdom of his Lord.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“to forego your Bible reading for the reading of even good books would soon bring a conscious sinking of the soul.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“If there is one fact, one doctrine, or promise in the Bible, which has produced no practical effect upon your temper or conduct, be assured that you do not truly believe it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“Carve a cherry pit with the utmost skill, and at best it is still a cherry pit; but a diamond, even if cut poorly, is still a precious stone. Even if a speaker cannot deliver an eloquent speech, if the subject is important, attempting to speak isn’t useless.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists

“It is idle to speak much to the point upon a matter which itself is not to the point.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight: Spurgeon's Urgent Message for Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists