Charles Spurgeon Christ Quotations

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul..

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Mi fe no descansa en lo que soy, o lo que seré, o como me siento, o lo que sé, sino en lo que Cristo és, en lo que él ha hecho, y en lo que él está haciendo en mí - My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Without Christ there is no hope.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.