Life in Christ Quotes

“Yes, Lord. Blind eyes, dumb tongue, cold heart – I believe you are able to change them all, and I give myself to you to be renewed by your divine grace.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Cursed be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm (Jeremiah 17:5).”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“One might say, “I don’t feel any evidence.” Don’t believe it any less because of that. Another says, “I don’t feel joy in my heart.” Believe it. Even if your heart is full of sorrow, joy will come afterwards. It’s a heroic faith that believes Christ in the face of a thousand contradictions.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Faith is pointless if you only believe in the Lord’s power over others but declare that you have no confidence in him for yourself”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“We can’t hope for salvation until we seek it with the same sense of need.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“In this way, their perseverance prevailed: no man will be lost who knows the art of persistent prayer.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“The two blind men were in downright earnest. The words which describe their appeal to Christ are crying out. This doesn’t mean simply speaking, because it says, crying out and saying. Crying out implies earnest, energetic, pathetic begging and pleading. Their tones and actions indicated that their desire was a deep, passionate craving.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“I wish that the Lord would thrust you into the furnace and make you like melted iron. Then the hammer of the gospel and the law together could beat you into something resembling an evangelical shape, and you might be saved. God’s arm is strong enough, and his fire fierce enough to melt even the iron of self-righteousness.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“can’t put fine words together. I’ve never studied speech. In fact, my heart loathes the very thought of intentionally speaking with fine words when souls are in danger of eternal separation from God. No, I work to speak straight to your hearts and consciences, and if there is anyone with faith to receive, God will bless them with fresh revelation. “And what kind of listening is that?” you ask. The way in which a man says, “As far as I understand that the preacher delivers God’s Word, I will follow him and do what he tells the seeking sinner to do. I will pray and plead tonight, and I will persevere in my requests before God; I will use all my effort to glorify the name of Jesus while I confess my own unworthiness. I will crave mercy at the hands of the Son of David.” Happy is the preacher who knows this will be the result of his labor. Belief”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Some of you have been in the habit of praying since you were little children. You seldom go to bed without repeating the prayers your mother taught you. Why do you do that if you don’t believe that Jesus Christ can save you? Why ask him to do what you don’t believe he can do?”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“The Lord grant this of his infinite grace – that he would allow us to know the will of Christ and then work in us to desire and to practice his perfect will! Amen and Amen.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Those in heaven have no will but God’s will. Their will is to serve him and delight themselves in him. If you and I don’t learn what obedience to God is and practice it, how could we hope to be happy in the midst of obedient spirits?”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“The moment a command comes to your heart, and you see it confirmed in the Word of God, do it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“If you trust Christ for yourself, then serve him for yourself. And by his mighty grace, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“If there’s anything in the Bible that disagrees with you, you are wrong. You need to come to terms with it right away, and the only terms will be obey, obey, obey your Lord’s will.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Remember, we sin every moment that we delay to do something commanded by Christ.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Be careful before you carelessly discard any precept of the Lord. Every word he has spoken to you is more precious than a diamond. Prize it. Store it up. Wear it. Let it be your ornament and your beauty.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“There must be a thoughtful, careful knowledge of what his will is and a preparedness of heart to do that will, whatever it is.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“We don’t praise the Lord properly, proportionately, or intensely. We receive a continent of mercies but only return an island of praise.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Just take Christ at his word and move forward in the strength of that word before you feel any hopeful change inside you. When your time to die comes, you can watch for glory and expect it, even though the brilliance of eternal live has not yet changed you.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Every man in his sinful nature kicks against simply trusting in Christ. When he finally yields to the divine method of mercy, it’s a direct surrender of his own will, the end of rebellion, and the establishment of peace. Faith is obedience. Faith is the evidence that the warfare has been ended by unconditional surrender.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“The wiser way is to calmly sit down and say, “Here’s God’s way of salvation through his crucified Son, Jesus Christ. And he’s promised that if I trust his Son, he’ll save me from sinning, make a new man of me, and heal me of my spiritual diseases. I’ll trust him, because I’m sure that the Word of God is true.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“As good as searching the Scriptures is, it’s nothing without coming to Christ. You will only read about your own condemnation in the Bible if you remain out of Christ. Even the Bible itself can be made into a stumbling block if you substitute Bible reading for closing the deal with Christ and putting your trust in him. Your immediate business is to trust Jesus, and no amount of reading will compensate for neglect of faith.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Remember, it’s not reading the Scripture that saves you; it’s believing in Christ.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“That’s the point. Can you trust Jesus? That’s what he’s asking you to do. It seems so strange that anyone would even raise a question about trusting him. How insane and insulting to be willing to trust our feelings and not trust the Savior.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“When the thunderbolts are launched, he who was once the Lamb so full of mercy will take his position as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, full of majesty. That thunderbolt will punctuate the fact that you rejected Christ. You heard him but turned a deaf ear to him. You neglected perfect salvation and refused God’s gift of grace.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Now it’s ancient history, and in a few more years when the great trumpet sounds, all those men who tried to throw him over the edge of the hill will have to look at him and see him seated where they can’t grab him, abuse him, or cast him down. What a sight it will be for them!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“And the gospel won’t be hurt even though you reject it and set yourself in opposition to it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“As long as you don’t trust him, I can only add you to his list of enemies. The most obvious proof is that you refuse to be saved by him.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1

“Your opposition to Christ may not take that active form, but unless you are converted, you are an enemy of Jesus.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Life in Christ: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables, Volume 1