All of Grace Quotes: 35 Lines from Spurgeon, with Chapters
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C. H. Spurgeon packed All of Grace with short, memorable sentences. That was on purpose. He wrote it for ordinary readers and chose, as he says, "the very plainest language." These quotes come word for word from the 1886 text in TheWay Library, and each one names its chapter so you can read it in context. You can read All of Grace free or start with the chapter-by-chapter summary.
Why he wrote the book
Here is my fountain, and here is my cup: find fault if you please; but do drink of the water of life. I only care for this.
All of Grace, chapter 1
This book does not come to make a demand upon you, but to bring you something.
All of Grace, chapter 2
Faith cometh by hearing, and reading is a sort of hearing: faith may come to you while you are reading this book.
All of Grace, chapter 2
God justifies the ungodly
Chapter 3 is a sermon on Romans 4:5, and it holds some of the most quoted lines in the book.
He comes, not because we are just, but to make us so: he justifieth the ungodly.
All of Grace, chapter 3
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.
All of Grace, chapter 3
Wait not for reformation, but come at once for salvation. God justifieth the ungodly, and that takes you up where you now are: it meets you in your worst estate.
All of Grace, chapter 3
If the Judge acquits me, who can condemn me?
All of Grace, chapter 4
The Lord is a great forgiver.
All of Grace, chapter 4
Spurgeon's own conversion
In chapter 4 he tells how he was saved as a young man, after hearing Isaiah 45:22.
I looked, and in a moment the Lord justified me. Jesus Christ, made sin for me, was what I saw, and that sight gave me rest.
All of Grace, chapter 4
The cross
Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel?
All of Grace, chapter 5
There is more in the atonement by way of merit, than there is in all human sin by way of demerit.
All of Grace, chapter 5
My sole hope for heaven lies in the full atonement made upon Calvary's cross for the ungodly. On that I firmly rely.
All of Grace, chapter 5
A new heart
We want to be purified as well as pardoned. Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.
All of Grace, chapter 6
The new nature follows after right as naturally as the old nature wanders after wrong.
All of Grace, chapter 6
Grace and faith
These lines explain the book's title. For more on this theme, see Saved by Grace Through Faith: What Spurgeon Says Faith Is.
Grace is the fountain and the stream; faith is the aqueduct along which the flood of mercy flows down to refresh the thirsty sons of men.
All of Grace, chapter 7
Never make a Christ out of your faith, nor think of it as if it were the independent source of your salvation.
All of Grace, chapter 7
A trembling hand may receive a golden gift.
All of Grace, chapter 7
What is faith? It is made up of three things — knowledge, belief, and trust.
All of Grace, chapter 8
Lean with all your weight upon Christ.
All of Grace, chapter 8
Better the poorest real faith actually at work, than the best ideal of it left in the region of speculation.
All of Grace, chapter 8
Our little friend, the limpet, does not know much, but he clings.
All of Grace, chapter 9
Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it; but it is not the price which buys it.
All of Grace, chapter 10
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ…
All of Grace, chapter 11
The shortest way to believe is to believe.
All of Grace, chapter 12
It is ours to believe, it is the Lord's to create us anew.
All of Grace, chapter 13
Repentance
Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
All of Grace, chapter 11
Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.
All of Grace, chapter 14
Do not regard your repentance as the cause of your remission, but as the companion of it.
All of Grace, chapter 14
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction.
All of Grace, chapter 15
Kept to the end
If you look to Christ for your beginnings, beware of looking to yourself for your endings.
All of Grace, chapter 16
True religion is supernatural at its beginning, supernatural in its continuance, and supernatural in its close. It is the work of God from first to last.
All of Grace, chapter 16
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
All of Grace, chapter 18
Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.
All of Grace, chapter 18
A last word to the reader
Let Jesus be your all in all, and let free grace be the one line in which you live and move.
All of Grace, chapter 19
If you are saved yourself, be on the watch for the souls of others.
All of Grace, chapter 19
Reading the quotes in context
A quote is a doorway, not the whole house. Spurgeon builds each chapter on a few Bible texts and comes back to them again and again, so a line makes the most sense next to the passage around it. Chapter 11, for example, repeats Romans 5:6 for every kind of weakness a reader might name.
If you want to know more about the preacher who wrote these words, read Who was Charles Spurgeon? or visit his author page. Then open All of Grace and read the book the quotes came from.