Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes - Page 2

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be spared the humiliation which springs from the truth! The sweet red apples of self-esteem are deadly poison; who would wish to be destroyed thereby? The bitter fruits of self-knowledge are always healthful, especially if washed down with the waters of repentance, and sweetened with a draught from the wells of salvation; he who loves his own soul will not despise them.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

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

More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity.