C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Man sins although he stands on the brink of the grave. It is not enough that the halter is about the traitor’s neck, he commits fresh treasons while standing beneath the gallows; he knows that his doom is recorded, and that his life is only a reprieve, and yet he insults the judge. 699.375 He hates God, indeed, who hates him so much that he will even dwell for ever in hell fire sooner than be forgiven by him and saved through the blood of his Son. Man shows his deadly enmity against God to the fullest extent when he will destroy himself to indulge it. 1213.47 The mind that looks after the flesh, the carnal mind, is a mass of downright, undiluted enmity to the Most High God. Such a mind is opposed, not merely to the things of God, the laws of God, and the truth of God, but to God himself. The mind which is under the dominion of the flesh cannot endure the being of God: his character is the object of its hate; nay, such a mind is hate itself towards God. 1878.14 I think an angel might well shiver with horror if, for the first time, he heard that men had struck the face of his Lord. It was but his human face, it is true; but therein they struck at all of Deity that they could reach. It was man smiting God in the face. 2825.161 At any rate, that is your choice at this present moment; and if a man will show his objection to Christ to so great an extent that he would himself be cast into hell sooner than let Jesus save him, you may depend upon it that there dwells in his heart sufficient enmity to Christ to hang him up again upon the gibbet if he were here once more. Christ would be hanged to-morrow if he came here among unregenerate hearts; ay, by the very people that hang their ivory crosses about their necks, and put them on their prayer-books, and fix them on their walls. 3123.603 From the Garden of Eden right on until now man has been an enemy of God; and although God has constantly returned good for evil, and is still the God of love and condescension, yet has man continued to fight against him, and there still is war between heaven and earth. Otherwise, there would be no need for ambassadors between God and men. This would be proof enough that a state of war prevails. 3148.277