“A plain Christ” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“A plain Christ is forever the loveliest Christ. Dress Him up, and you have deformed Him and defamed Him. Bring Him out just as He is, the Christ of God, nothing else but Christ and Him crucified.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Chief Office of the Holy Spirit” in Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit (New Kensington, PA: [...]

“Greater glory among the oxen” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Think for a minute of Christ’s person as revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. What can more glorify Him than for us to see His person, very God of very God, and yet as truly man? What a wondrous being, as human as ourselves, but as divine as God! Was there ever another like [...]

“The glory of Christ lies in Himself” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The things that glorify Christ are all in Christ. The Holy Spirit brings nothing from abroad, but He takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us. The glory of kings lies in their silver and gold, their silk and gems, but the glory of Christ lies in Himself.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Chief [...]

“The dearest place on earth” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Give yourself to the Church. You that are members of the Church have not found it perfect and I hope that you feel almost glad that you have not. If I had never joined a Church till I had found one that was perfect, I would never have joined one at all! And the moment [...]

“Our faith is a Person” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Our faith is a Person. The gospel that we have to preach is a Person. And go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach. If you had asked the twelve apostles, in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have needed to go round about with a long reply, [...]

“The power of the preached Word” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“I have to bless God for many good books… but my gratitude most of all is due to God, not for books, but for the preached Word,—and that too addressed to me by a poor, uneducated man, a man who had never received any training for the ministry, and probably will never be heard of [...]

“The common consent of fools” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The great guide of the world is fashion, and its god is respectability—two phantoms, at which brave men laugh. How many of you look around on society to know what to do. You watch the general current, and then float upon it. You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True [...]

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“If Jesus is precious to you, you will not be able to keep your good news to yourself. You will be whispering it into your child’s ear. You will be telling it to your husband. You will be earnestly imparting it to your friend. Without the charms of eloquence you will be more than eloquent: [...]

“Oh! I love God’s ‘wills’ and ’shalls’” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Oh! I love God’s ’shalls’ and ‘wills.’ There is nothing comparable to them. Let a man say ’shall,’ what is it good for? ‘I will,’ says man, and he never performs; ‘I shall,’ says he, and he breaks his promise. But it is never so with God’s ’shalls.’ If He says ’shall,’ it shall be; [...]

“He who saved the thief” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Seest thou yonder thief hanging upon the cross? Behold the fiends at the foot thereof, with open mouths; charming themselves with the sweet thought, that another soul shall give them meat in hell. Behold the death-bird, fluttering his wings o’er the poor wretch’s head; vengeance passes by and stamps him for her own; deep on [...]

“May that happy day come soon!” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The Lord pronounces a curse upon these Pharisees and Rabbis, these who ‘thrust with side and with shoulder,’ those evil shepherds who will not suffer the sheep to lie down, neither will feed them with good pasture. But, after having described this state, He prophesies better times for the poor Jew. The day is coming [...]

“The power of the Spirit” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The Spirit is very powerful, Christian! What do you infer from that fact? Why, that you never need distrust the power of God to carry you to heaven… The power of the Holy Spirit is your bulwark, and all His omnipotence defends you. Can your enemies overcome omnipotence? Then they can conquer you. Can they [...]

“The sweet whisperings of Calvary” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“We cannot reach the soul, but the Holy Spirit can. He can give a sense of blood-bought pardon that shall dissolve a heart of stone. He can speak with that voice which wakes the dead and bids the sinner rise. He makes the guilty conscience dread the death that never dies. He can make Sinai’s [...]

“The gospel is the sum of wisdom” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The gospel is the sum of wisdom, an epitome of knowledge, a treasure-house of truth, and a revelation of mysterious secrets. In it we see how justice and mercy may be married. Here we behold inexorable law entirely satisfied, and sovereign love bearing away the sinner in triumph. Our meditation upon it enlarges the mind. [...]

“Your gospel is an effeminate thing” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Can you stare death in the face with it, and say, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth?’ Can you close your eyes at night, singing as your vesper song— ‘I to the end must endure as sure as the earnest is given?’ Can you bless God for affliction? Can you plunge in, accounted as ye [...]