
Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth . – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
- Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
- Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion. – Cormac McCarthy
- It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon