Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that salvation comes not from one's own worthiness but from acknowledging one's guilt and need for grace.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights a core principle in Christian theology: that mercy and salvation are extended to those who recognize their flaws and shortcomings, rather than to those who perceive themselves as morally superior. It conveys the idea that humility and a sense of guilt open the door to redemption, suggesting that true worthiness is found in acknowledging one's unworthiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to inspire humility and encourage believers to seek grace.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
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