Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
51 quotes
"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."
"Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you."
"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."
"A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics."
"If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear."
"Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them."
"There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities."
"Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one."
"Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again."
"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."
"Heart language is logic set on fire."
"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth ."
"God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers."
"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."
"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."
"Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord."
"The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul."
"Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought."
"Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God."
"If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men."
"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."
"Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men."
"Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister."
"The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau."
"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."