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" The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. "

Charles Spurgeon

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Believe

Life

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" We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises. "

" Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. "

" In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.' "

" Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. "

" There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell. "

" Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. "

" You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. "

" 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. "

" I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin! "

" Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God. "

" We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means. "

" To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. "

" The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus. "

" No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. "

" 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. "

" Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. "

" 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. "

" I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. "

" When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. "

" Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. "

" We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection. "

" Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. "

Charles Spurgeon

See

Soil

" A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. "

" Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee. "

" Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another. "

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I Am

" I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman. "

" There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days. "