Charles Haddon Spurgeon
18 quotes.
Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.
- As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
- Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.
- Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses.
- Holy thoughts breed holy words and holy actions, and are hopeful evidences of a renewed heart. Who would not have them? To keep chaff out of a bushel, one sure plan is to fill it with wheat.
- If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous.
- In conduct do not make trifles of trifles. Regard the smallest action as being either right or wrong, and make a conscience of little things.
- It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength.
- It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is a very dangerous, if not a fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
- It should be a joy to hold a candle to another. It will not waste our own light to impart it.
- Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
- Never mind where you work; let your care be for the work itself.
- Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
- Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
- The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.