“Full Assurance”, 1861
https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/full-assurance/#flipbook/
You are justified by faith, not by feelings, you are saved by what Christ felt for you, not by what you feel, and the root and basis of salvation is the cross, and “other foundation shall no man lay than that which is laid,” which is Christ Jesus the Lord.
Morning and Evening, June 28
Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument—it is Christ’s blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith.
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking unto Jesus.” Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to him; when thou liest down at night look to him.
“How Can I Obtain Faith?” 1872
Romans 10:17 "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/how-can-i-obtain-faith/#flipbook/
Faith doth not come by feeling, but through faith arises much of holy feeling, and the more a man lives in the walk of faith, as a rule, the more will he feel and enjoy the light of God’s countenance. Faith hath something firmer to stand upon than those ever-changing frames and feelings which, like the weather of our own sunless land, is fickle and frail, and changeth speedily from brightness into gloom.
You may get feeling from faith, and the best of it, but you will be long before you will find any faith that is worth the having, if you try to evoke it from frames and feelings.
All the hope of the sinner lies out of himself, none of it in himself…all his help for salvation is laid upon one that is mighty, even Jesus Christ the Son of God, and he must look away from his own feelings, and prayings, and doings, and even away from his own believings as any ground of confidence, and must rest simply and alone upon the one sacrifice of Jesus.
“A Sense of Pardoned Sin”, 1860
https://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0316.htm
We are saved by what Christ felt, and not by what we feel; we are redeemed by his most precious blood, and not by any experience of our own…(but) where there is faith there will be experience
We are saved by faith, and not by feeling. Yet our hallowed feelings…bear witness to the life of our faith.
The feelings of a pardoned man are but the necessary and natural consequence of the truths of (the Bible).
“Encouragement for the Depressed”, 1871
https://www.spurgeongems.org/sermon/chs3489.pdf
Zechariah 4:10 “For who hath despised the day of small things?”
You have but small faith, and that faith, being small, your feelings are very variable. I often hear this from young beginners in the divine life: “I was so happy a month ago, but I have lost that happiness now.” Perhaps tomorrow, after they have been at the house of God, they will be as cheerful as possible, but the next day their joy will be gone.
He that lives by feeling will be happy today and unhappy tomorrow; and if our salvation depended upon our feelings, we should be lost one day and saved another, for they are as fickle as the weather, and go up and down like a barometer. We live by faith, and if that faith be weak, bless God that weak faith is faith, and that weak faith is true faith. If thou believest in Christ Jesus, though thy faith be as a grain of mustard seed, it will save thee, and it will, by and by, grow into something stronger. A diamond is a diamond, and the smallest scrap of it is of the same nature as [the British Crown Jewels], and he that hath but little faith hath faith for all that; and it is not great faith that is essential to salvation, but faith that links the soul to Christ; and that soul is, therefore, saved.
Instead of mourning so much that thy faith is not strong, bless God that thou hast any faith at all, for if he sees that thou despisest the faith he has given thee, it may be long before he gives thee more. Prize that little, and when he sees that thou art so glad and thankful for that little, then will he multiply it and increase it, and thy faith shall mount even to the full assurance of faith.
J.C. Ryle Practical Religion, 1878, “Bible Reading”, p. 124
https://www.biblebb.com/files/ryle/pract5.htm
A religion of feeling is an uncertain thing. It is like the tide, sometimes high, and sometimes low. It is like the moon, sometimes bright, and sometimes dim. A religion of deep Bible knowledge, is a firm and lasting possession. It enables a man not merely to say, "I feel hope in Christ," but "I know whom I have believed". (2 Timothy 1:12)