Charles Spurgeon Quotes

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

Person, Poor, Miserable

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

Men, Lives, Owe

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.
Charles Spurgeon

Rather, Heaven, Turn

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.
Charles Spurgeon

Live, Him, Cannot

We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Charles Spurgeon

Times, Prophets

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

Hard, Sweet, Crack

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon

Care, Cannot, She

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Charles Spurgeon

Finance, Getting

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon

Golden, Likes, Eggs

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

Age, Great, Old

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 19, 1834

Died: January 31, 1892

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