Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

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"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Heart language is logic set on fire."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"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, Lectures to My Students

"God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"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, Lectures to My Students

"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

"The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students