3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
3 December 2020 Charles 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
