It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for th...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Giving is true having.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is not well to make great changes in old age.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; a...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find the...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel ye...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES HADDON-SPURGEON Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peacea...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an imp...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Zeal--what is it? How shall I describe it? Possess it, and you will know what it is. Be consumed wit...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, an...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be conti...
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 it seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech th...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, m...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day b...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. SPURGEON Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
C. H. SPURGEON The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the princ...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of ced...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is not well to make great changes in old age.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Every generation needs regeneration
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Fiery trials make golden Christians
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass
CHARLES H. SPURGEON God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon i...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
CHARLES H. SPURGEON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON He that deserves nothing should be content with anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them
CHARLES H. SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving ca...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Feel for others - in your pocket
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON