I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of huma… - Charles Spurgeon

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objections but the ground of quarrel. It is rather covert enmity which we have most cause to fear and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.