Blog Journeys of a Lifelong Learner

The Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon, was a tremendous blessing to the Christian church.

Some of his statements are collected here:

Modern thought labors to get away from what is obviously the meaning of the Holy Spirit, that sin was lifted from the guilty and laid upon the innocent.

Our Lord's spirituality is not of that visionary sort which despises the feeding of hungry bodies.  Look after His poor and needy ones.  How can you be truly spiritual if you do not so?

He who holds back a soul from Jesus is the servant of Satan, and is doing the most diabolical of all the devil’s work.

It is shameful and beyond endurance to see how genteel swindling is winked at by many.

The power to receive is scarcely a power, and yet it is the only power needed for salvation.  Come along and take what Christ doth freely give you.

Suppose an accident should take away our lives; I smile as I think that the worst thing that could happen would be the best thing that could happen.  If we should die, we should but the sooner be "forever with the Lord."

The publican's prayer so pleased the Lord Jesus Christ, who heard it, that He condescended to become a portrait painter, and took a sketch of the petitioner.

Pain and depression of spirit, endured in early life, have prepared many to sympathize with the unhappy, and to live a life of benevolence.