Quotes from Charles Spurgeon
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
- Charles Spurgeon
Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
- Charles Spurgeon
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
- Charles Spurgeon
We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.
- Charles Spurgeon
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
- Charles Spurgeon
We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.
- Charles Spurgeon
Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
- Charles Spurgeon
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
- Charles Spurgeon
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
- Charles Spurgeon
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
- Charles Spurgeon
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
- Charles Spurgeon