A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes
Dear -, I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds. Yours truly, C. H. Spurgeon (Letter to someone who had written to Spurgeon saying he ‘had heard he smoked, and could not believe it true’)
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
It may be said that original sin is not our burden, but Adam’s. But the burden of the father, if he brings the whole household into poverty, becomes the burden of the family. If the head should ache, it is no use for the hand to say, “It is no business of mine.”
Sin is the transgression of the law: I will not own to sin when I am not conscious of it… When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
I am not going to dispute with the apostle, and yet if he were here, I should be a little dubious as to his right to the title of “chief of sinners.” I would ask him whether, if he were chief, I was not the next.
God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod.
The Latin word, I think is ‘ignoramus.'” He did not like it at all. Yet I only translated his language from Greek to Latin. These are queer waters to get into, when all your philosophy brings you is the confession that you know nothing, and the stupidity which enables you to glory in your ignorance.
When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbor; for on a slumbering ocean the keel sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with […]
A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.
