Famous Charles Spurgeon Quotations

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"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."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."
by Charles H. Spurgeon
"Feel for others--in your pocket."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend."
by Charles Spurgeon
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"If you want a thing well done, do it yourself."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Of two evils choose neither."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it."
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"E'er since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply Redeeming love has been my theme And shall be till I die"
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble."
by 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."
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel."
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
"The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already."
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."
by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon


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