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.
Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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