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.
Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.
The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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