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The Soul Winner QUOTES

The Soul Winner QUOTES

1 " and what I have said of soul-winners, belongs not to the learned doctor of divinity, or to the eloquent preacher alone, but to you all who are in Christ Jesus. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

2 " The best attraction is the gospel in its purity. The weapon with which the Lord conquers men is the truth as it is in Jesus. The gospel will be found equal to every emergency; an arrow which can pierce the hardest heart, a balm which will heal the deadliest wound. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

3 " Every man here, every woman here, every child here whose heart is right with God, may be a soul-winner. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

4 " We have not only to be witnesses and pleaders, but we have also to be examples... If a man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should say nothing. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

5 " The increase of the kingdom is more to be desired than the growth of a clan. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

6 " God will not use dead tools for working living miracles; "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

7 " The utmost zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason: raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

8 " Hence, if we do not teach men something, we may shout, “Believe! Believe! Believe!” but what are they to believe? Each exhortation requires a corresponding instruction, or it will mean nothing. “Escape!” From what? This requires for its answer the doctrine of the punishment of sin. “Fly!” But whither? Then must you preach Christ, and His wounds; yea, and the clear doctrine of atonement by sacrifice. “Repent!” Of what? Here you must answer such questions as, What is sin? What is the evil of sin? What are the consequences of sin ? “Be converted!” But what is it to be converted? By what power can we be converted? What from? What to? The field of instruction is wide if men are to be made to know the truth which saves. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

9 " To introduce unconverted persons to the church, is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

10 " And don’t believe that when you go into revival meetings, or special evangelistic services, that it’s permissible to leave the doctrines out of the gospel. If anything, for such occasions you ought to proclaim the doctrines of grace more, rather than less. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

11 " the chief business of the Christian minister. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

12 " A sinner will never be converted until his emotions are stirred. Unless he feels sorrow for sin, and unless he has some measure of joy in the reception of the Word, you can’t have much hope for him. The Truth must soak into the soul and dye it with its own color. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

13 " I implore you to speak from your hearts or else don’t speak at all. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

14 " it is supposed that there will be no conversions if he preaches the whole counsel of God. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

15 " Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also, "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

16 " I don’t delight in religion which needs or creates an impulsive, hotheaded convert. Give me godliness which flourishes upon Calvary rather than upon Vesuvius. The greatest zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason, while raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge (Romans 10:2). "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

17 " let a man become really holy, and, even if he only has the slightest ability, he will be a more fit instrument in God’s hand than the man of great acquired skills who is not obedient to divine will, nor clean and pure in the sight of the Lord God Almighty. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

18 " The greatest strength of the sermon lies in what has gone before the sermon. You must get ready for the whole service through private fellowship with God and real holiness of character. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

19 " In God’s school, the teachers must be masters of the art of holiness. If we teach one thing by our lips and another by our lives, those who listen to us will say, “Physician, heal thyself.” “Thou sayest, ‘Repent.’ Where is thine own repentance? Thou sayest, ‘Serve God, and be obedient to His will.’ Do you serve Him? Are you obedient to His will?” An unholy ministry would be the derision of the world, and a dishonour to God. “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” He will speak through a fool if he be but a holy man. I do not, of course, mean that God chooses fools to be His ministers; but let a man once become really holy, even though he has but the slenderest possible ability, he will be a more fit instrument in God’s hand than the man of gigantic acquirements, who is not obedient to the divine will, nor clean and pure in the sight of the Lord God Almighty. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner

20 " the most likely instrument to do the Lord’s work is the man who expects God will use him and who goes forth to labor in the strength of that conviction "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , The Soul Winner