Christ Alone

We are apt to think that we are not in a right state, that we do not feel enough, instead of remembering that our business is not with self, but Christ. Let me beseech thee, look only to Christ; never expect deliverance from self, from ministers, or from any means of any kind apart from Christ; keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death, His agonies, His groans, His sufferings, His Merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look for Him; when thou liest down at night look for Him.' Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 42

God's Glory

He loved to proclaim 'the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.' Christ - He was the 'glorious, all-absorbing topic' of Spurgeon's ministry and that Name turned his pulpit labours into 'a bath in the waters of Paradise.' Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 40

Holy Spirit

A preacher, he says, 'ought to know that he really possess the Spirit of God, and that when he speaks there is an influence upon him that enables him to speak as God would have him,.. Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 36-37

Holy Spirit

'God has come unto us, not to exalt us, but to exalt Himself.' Moreover he saw nothing singular in his confidence in the Holy Spirit, for he regarded this as the mark of every true messanger of God. Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 36

Spurgeon

'His power of reading was perhaps never equalled... He took in the contents almost at a glance and his memory never failed him as to what he read. He made a point of reading half-a-dozen of the hardest books every week. I several times had an opportunity of testing the thoroughness of his reading and I never found him at fault.' (Dr. Wright, quoted in Spurgeon's Autobiography 4, 273.) At the time of his death Spurgeon had a library of 12,000 books and it is said 'he could have fetched almost any one of them in the dark.' Similarly, we read that 'Mr. Spurgeon at one time as he sat on his platform, could name every one of his five thousand members'. Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 33

Humility

In this connection it was no coincidence that, like John Calvin who desired no epitaph to mark his grave, Spurgeon wished for nothing more than the letters 'C.H.S.' to mark his tombstone. Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon p. 17

Divine Authority

He foresaw an age coming for the church when successw would not be the norm and when statistics and majorities would be a very misleading guide to the truth. He did not claim attention to his message because of its success but because of its Divine authority. 'Long ago I ceased to cound head, truth is usually in the minority in this evil world'. (Charles Spurgeon)

Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon p. 16-17