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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.


Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES SPURGEON I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been a...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make mu...
CHARLES SPURGEON Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
CHARLES SPURGEON I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to p...
CHARLES SPURGEON Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for j...
CHARLES SPURGEON We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi...
CHARLES SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES SPURGEON True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world...
CHARLES SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
CHARLES SPURGEON Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatr...
CHARLES SPURGEON Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's su...
CHARLES SPURGEON We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
CHARLES SPURGEON The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...
CHARLES SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES SPURGEON There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at...
CHARLES SPURGEON After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...
CHARLES SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES SPURGEON We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ...
CHARLES SPURGEON O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe...
CHARLES SPURGEON Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast...
CHARLES SPURGEON A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris...
CHARLES SPURGEON If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES SPURGEON A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne...
CHARLES SPURGEON I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that...
CHARLES SPURGEON In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
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