Quotes by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on difficulties   

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on enemies
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"Of two evils, choose neither."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on evil
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"You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on fashion   

"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."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on friends and friendship
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"Giving is true having."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on giving   

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

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"When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on hypocrisy   

"It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on individuality   

"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on laziness
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"It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head."

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"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on learning   

"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on achievement
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on anger   

"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on anxiety
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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on arrogance
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"Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on luck   

"Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on money   

"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on newspapers   

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"We are all at times unconscious prophets."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on prophecy   

"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on sincerity   

"The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on success   

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on suffering   

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on change   

"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"

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on character
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"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trials
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"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trials
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"Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trust   

"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."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on wisdom   

"The wishing gate opens into nothing."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on wish and wishing   

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on worry