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.


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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
C. H. (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...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for th...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Giving is true having.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
C. H. (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; a...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Of two evils, choose neither.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
The wishing gate opens into nothing.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
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
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. SPURGEON
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
C. H. SPURGEON
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tu...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - ...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Of two evils, choose neither.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON