Charles Spurgeon Quotes

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

Only sinners need saviors.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.