I was enjoying some thoughts from George Whitefield, Spurgeon and others and decided to post some of them here.They are broad in range, but all point to Biblical truths. Please feel free to post comments on them, or give other quotes for us to enjoy.
Mark Cowperthwaite
“Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.” Spurgeon
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? Whitefield
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher- George Whitefield
“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.” Spurgeon
“You know that we all have our besetments,” says one. What do you mean by that?
Some sin that you often fall into? Do you call that a besetting sin? If I were to walk
to-night across Clapham Common, and half-a-dozen men stopped me, I should say
that I was beset; but if at an appointed place a party met me regularly, I should not
say that I was beset. And so, the sin which a man often indulges in is not his
besetting sin: it is his favourite sin, a sin that will be his ruin- Spurgeon
Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call
them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. Spurgeon
“It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God”- George Whitefield
