Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Related Quotes:
- Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God’s touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God’s touch, immediately. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do. – Dan Harmon
- 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
- Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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
- The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. – 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
- 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
- Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach. – 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