Charles Spurgeon quotes
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892): British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist. The library holds 71 quotes by Charles Spurgeon. The 60 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: life, money, kindness, faith, family, home
The best-known Charles Spurgeon quotes
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Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
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Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
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Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it.
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Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
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A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else.
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When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
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Home is the grandest of all institutions.
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Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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Trust in that man’s promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform.
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Leave all piggies’ ears alone rather than seize upon the wrong one.
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The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
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He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
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If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous.
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Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up.
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Lazarus did not go to Abraham’s bosom because he was poor, or every sluggard would go there easily.
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If you have a special weakness, do not expose it by attempting to do things which will bring it out.
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Many a father might say,… “I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf.”
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Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
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The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon.
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
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It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life.
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In all matters prefer the less evil to the greater, and solace yourself under any ill with the reflection that it might be worse.
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Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself.
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When any one ceases to care for his home, it is one of the worst possible signs of moral sickness.
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There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work.
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Judgment must sway the feelings and keep them in their right place, or harm will be done where good was intended.
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It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength.
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Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service.
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It is a great pity when the man who should be the head figure is a mere figure-head.
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Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.
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Persons who are very plausible and excessively polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you “dear” the first time they see you.
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There’s a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety: find it out and keep to it.
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When you do not know what to do, it is a clear indication that you are to do nothing.
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Judicious persons will think all the less of us because of the ill-judged praises of our silly friends.
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When people laugh at their own jokes, their wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth.
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“You must be in the fashion,” is the utterance of weak-headed mortals.
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Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel.
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It is always vitally important to ourselves to be scrupulously true.
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When home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
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Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves.
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Yield to God’s word and will, and you will escape many a calamity.
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You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child’s head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk.
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None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains the semblance of wealth.
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The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel.
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Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper.
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Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax.
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Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
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The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty.
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Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided.
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The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe.
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Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances.
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A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
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Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
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Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home.
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Let the matter be good, and let the manner befit it.
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He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
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A countryman is as warm in fustian as a king in velvet, and a truth is as comfortable in homely language as in fine speech. As to the way of dishing up the meat, hungry men leave that to the cook, only let the meat be sweet and substantial.
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.