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 (1834-1892)   American Preacher

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

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.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

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.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.