C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

Through the fall, and through our own sin, the nature of man has become so debased, and depraved, and corrupt, that it is impossible for him to come to Christ without the assistance of God the Holy Spirit. WWa71 Now, if the quickened child of God finds a spiritual inability, how much more the sinner who is dead in trespasses and sins? If even the advanced Christian, after thirty or forty years, finds himself sometimes willing and yet powerless—if such be his experience,—does it not seem more than likely that the poor sinner who has not yet believed, should find a need of strength as well as a want of will? WWa74 In us there is a lack of all merit, absence of all power to procure any, and even an absence of will to procure it if we could. 978.122 The word of God to an unregenerate heart is like a trumpet at the ear of a corpse: the sound is lost. 980.148 No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened. 2267.362 We are nothing, we yield nothing, we can do nothing. 2410.193