Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets. ”

It is not well to make great changes in old age. ”

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working. ”

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. ”

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. ”

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity. ”

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise. ”

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn. ”

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. ”

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world. ”