Charles Spurgeon Firsts Quotations

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

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.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

...‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

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.

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.