
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
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- Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- If your situation is too tough, don´t go back, go forward. You die quicker when you go backward. Die later when you go forward. – Patience Johnson
- Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still. – Pearl Zhu
- The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom. – RSD
- The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror. – TS Eliot
- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person’s history from their face. – Naama Yehuda
- Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God’s touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God’s touch, immediately. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. – 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
- Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. – 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
- I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels. – 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
- It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity. – 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
- That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We entertain God’s Truth not as a guest but as master of the house. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts. – Vironika Tugaleva