A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Giving is true having.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Of two evils, choose neither.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Type:
Clergyman
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1892
Nationality:
British |
