Charles Spurgeon

Some men drink to excess to drown care. As well may a man in debt drink to drown his thoughts; it neither pays the debt, nor postpones the reckoning. O, soul, be true to thyself.

I affirm, and the world declares it, unbelief is a sin. Is it not a sin for a creature to doubt the word of its maker? Is it not a crime and an insult to

Wise men ever know their own ignorance and are ready to learn. Humility is the child of knowledge. Michael Angelo was found by the Cardinal Farnese walking in solitude amid the ruins of the Coliseum,

It is reported that in the Tamul language there is no word for hope. Alas! poor men, if we were all as destitute of the blessed comfort itself, as these Tamul speakers are of the

See how the horse pricks up his ears and quickens his pace when you turn his head to his stable. Much more then should intelligent Christian men feel the attractions of their heavenly home. Courage,

Call it fanaticism if you will, but I trust that there are some of us who know what it is to be always, or generally, under the influence of the Holy Spirit—always in one sense,

As courtiers are more polite in their manners than ordinary subjects, because they are more in their prince’s company, so may the society of the Lord’s holy servants raise the tone of our thought and

Julius Caesar, going towards Rome with his army, and hearing that the senate and people had fled from it, said, “They that will not fight for this city, what city will they fight for?” If

Payson, when dying, expressed himself with great earnestness respecting the grace of God as exercised in saving lost men, and seemed particularly affected that it should be bestowed on one so ill-deserving as himself. “O,