Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. Charles 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 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 Spurgeon
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win. Charles 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 Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles 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 Spurgeon
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple. Charles 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 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 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 Spurgeon