Charles Spurgeon Race Quotations

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

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 sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.

Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, 'If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.'

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song,

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.