Charles Spurgeon

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them.

The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.

Of two evils choose neither.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Every generation needs regeneration.

Don't rely too much on labels, For too often they are fables.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.

Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Our great object of glorifying God is … to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls...

A vigorous temper is not always an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as little worth.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.

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

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Men are microcosms, or little worlds; each man has his distinct sphere, wherein he dwells apart. We are so many worlds, and no one world of man exactly overlaps another. You cannot completely know your fellowman.

Women are best when they are quiet.

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me.

Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have …