C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Do not throw away the best for the sake of getting something that may be newer, but that must be far inferior. I hold one single sentence out of God’s word to be of more certainty, and of more power, than all the discoveries of all the learned men of all the ages. 1814.680 The words of this book are proved to be the words of God, because they have an infinite adaptation to the varied minds which the Lord has made. 2084.261 I would rather speak five words out of this book than fifty thousand words of the philosophers. 2246.114 And I say, and I am sure that many of you will say with me, these speeches of God, these revealings of God which I find in these two books of the Old and New Testaments, are my heritage. I rejoice to accept them as the estate of my mind, the treasure of my thought, the mint of the heavenly realm, the mine from which I can explore fresh veins of thought as long as I live, claiming all as my heritage for ever. 2415.254 This kind of experience should teach us the preciousness of the Word of God as a whole so that we would not part with a single letter of it, and would not give up even the dot of an i or the cross of a t. I always deprecate the spirit which tries to tamper with the Word of God. I admire those who have sufficient knowledge of the ancient manuscripts of the Scriptures to tell us, as nearly as they can ascertain them, what were the original Hebrew and Greek words; but I deeply deplore that kind of spirit which, after the style of a destructive parrot, seeks to tear the Scriptures to pieces, and to rob the children of God of their priceless possession. Why, even a solitary divine precept is so precious that, if all the saints in the world were burnt at one stake for the defence of it, it would be well worth the holocaust. 3248.207 We can scarcely calculate how much we owe to those “holy men of God” who, under the Spirit’s guidance, planted this vineyard from which we are continually gathering such rich clusters. Think too how much we are indebted, under God, to those who were the means of preserving this record, and handing it down to us, often at the cost of their own lives. Every page of the Bible is, as it were, bespattered with the blood of the martyrs, yet we have not had to pay that price for it; we draw the life-giving water out of wells that we did not dig; and eat the fruit of the sacred trees that we did not plant. 3248.210