Spurgeon Quotes

I found some other great quotes from Charles H Spurgeon:

• “There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work” - I have found this to be true, for there are times when we expend our energies on being bored or restless, and then feel even more tired because we become unmotivated and sluggish.

• “Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties" - This is a good way of saying that we grow the most through our times of challenges and difficulties, that those are times in which God is often at work in our lives as we are being "refined by the fires".

• “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” - This reminds me of how Christ describes the Pharisees.  I, myself, have sometimes been fooled by the impressive "display windows" of some, only to learn over time, that it was all a facade.

• “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength” - How true that we often allow worries to consume our energies; and yet, worry in itself does not help resolve anything.

• “Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self” - I haven't thought about humility in terms of recognizing who we really are; but, it is true that when we see ourselves in light of who God is, then, we cannot help but be humbled.