Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students Quotes
You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.
It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.
The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.
A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.
Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.
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.
The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.
Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.
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.
The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly, but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.
If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.
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.
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.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .
Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.
If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.
The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.
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.
We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.
Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.