Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— 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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

— 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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Giving is true having.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

— Charles Haddon 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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon