Charles Haddon Spurgeon Famous Quotes
"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."
"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."
Feel for others--in your pocket.
Of two evils choose neither.
"Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness."
"I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God."
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in."
"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."
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
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.
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
"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."
"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotations
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
Benjamin Cardozo
"Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll."
Billy Madison
"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."
Confucius
"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
Pierre Beaumarchais
"It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
Hermann Hesse
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor."
Jeffrey Klein
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
Howard Thurman
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Pliny the Younger