Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles H Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles H Spurgeon
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. Charles H Spurgeon
Luck generally comes to those who look after it; and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody’s door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. Charles H Spurgeon
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles H Spurgeon
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win. Charles H Spurgeon
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within. Charles H Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles H Spurgeon
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles H Spurgeon
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. Charles H Spurgeon
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. Charles H Spurgeon
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple. Charles H Spurgeon
Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgement are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. Charles H 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 H Spurgeon
Repentance of the evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Some would dam up the stream, but leave the fountain still flowing; they would remove the eruption from the skin, but leave the disease in the flesh. Charles H Spurgeon