Quotes about inerrancy from the prince of preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
We will not have it that God, in his Holy Book, makes mistakes about matters of history, or of science, any more than he does upon the great truths of salvation. If the Lord be God, he must be infallible; and if he can be described as in error in the little respects of human history and science, he cannot be trusted in the greater matters. (1)
How dare you, because God reveals to you two things, which two things you cannot make square with one another—how dare you charge either the one or the other with being false? (2)
I do not believe that, from one cover to the other, there is any mistake in it of any sort whatever, either upon natural or physical science, or upon history or anything whatever. I am prepared to believe whatever it says, and to take it believing it to be the Word of God; for if it is not all true, it is not worth one solitary penny to me. It may be to the man who is so wise that he can pick out the true from the false; but I am such a fool that I could not do that. If I do not have a guide there that is infallible, I would as soon guide myself, for I shall have to do so after all; I shall have to be correcting the blunders of my guide perpetually, but I am not qualified to do that, and so I am worse off than if I had not any guide at all. Sit thou down, Reason, and let Faith rise up. (3)
These words come from him who can make no mistake, and who can have no wish to deceive his creatures. If I did not believe in the infallibility of the Book, I would rather be without it. If I am to judge the Book, it is no judge of me. I am perfectly satisfied myself to believe what he writes to me; and if it be so written in his Book, it seems to me to be quite as true and sure as if he had actually come from heaven, and had talked with me, or had appeared to me in the visions of the night. (4)
1–The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37
2–Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London, Volume 8
3–The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426
4–The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120
