Charles Spurgeon Quotes - Page 58

• Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Money, Battle, Half

  "John Ploughman's Talks".

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• Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Squares, Soul, Meals

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• Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reading, Light, Giving

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• A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

  Charles Spurgeon

  Yield, Air, Oxygen

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.166, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Individual Effort, Achievement, Might

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• Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Waste

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• A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself
  on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards
  with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Moments, Despise

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.1002, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trouble, Mercy, Heavy

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• You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Giving, Soul

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• That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Highways

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.108, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Elements, Flow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Hands, Lovely

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blood, Sides, Priceless

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1251, Discovery House

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• When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Light, Heaven, Everyday

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• Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mind, Trying, Crosses

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• If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivation, Flower, Inspiration

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Diana L. Matisko (1984). “Evening by Evening”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spread, Practicals

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Doe, Lord

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Men, Feet

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• But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Memorable, Thoughtful, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power In Praising God”, p.61, Whitaker House

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