Charles Spurgeon Quotes

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

My parents are ministers.

I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.

I want to be maybe the modern-day Billy Graham.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.

The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.

I just love preaching.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.

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

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.