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The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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  1. I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  2. Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  3. Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  4. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  5. Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  6. You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister. – Katherine J Walden
  7. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  8. 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
  9. Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  10. Christ’s vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  11. 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
  12. No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. – Wallace Stegner
  13. The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all. – Spike Milligan
  14. hndoera kindyour life is a ticking of a clock when that clock stops ur life stops – Abeer rehan
  15. Writing Cave means it’s Coffee O’Clock…Who am I kidding? It’s always Coffee O’Clock! – TammyLouise Wilkins
  16. What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies – Neil Postman
  17. We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people’s lives one at a time. – Lyra Parish
  18. It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  19. There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  20. Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  21. Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  22. Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  23. Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  24. 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
  25. The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  26. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  27. A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  28. No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  29. 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
  30. Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  31. The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  32. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  33. When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  34. Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  35. 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
  36. God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  37. You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  38. The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  39. God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  40. 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

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