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Mark Haddon quote: "Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families."

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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.


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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviou...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of e...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Whatever you may know, you you cannot be truly efficient ministers if you are not "apt to teach." Yo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substa...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possib...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove'...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, thoug...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesu...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the d...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when th...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow o...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleas...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of
what is yet to...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absenc...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty o...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can disc...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, b...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thy...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him whe...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for m...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one ca...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove thei...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would v...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and le...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Man of Sorrows is now anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. Returned in triumph f...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fa...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no mo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature,...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

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