It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Happiness
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Quotes by Charles Spurgeon
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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.
Education
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Wisdom
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Courage
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Truth
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.
Love
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Wisdom
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Wisdom
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Wisdom
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Wisdom
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Life
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Life
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Wisdom
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Wisdom
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
Wisdom
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Wisdom
Of two evils, choose neither.
Wisdom
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Wisdom
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Wisdom
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Wisdom
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Wisdom
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Life
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