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. Charles Spurgeon More Quotes by Charles Spurgeon More Quotes From Charles Spurgeon The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer. Charles Spurgeon judging prayer people Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad. Charles Spurgeon christian heart giving It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all. Charles Spurgeon doe wonderful hands Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing. Charles Spurgeon done christ firsts No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow. Charles Spurgeon tomorrow O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on. Charles Spurgeon christian men museums We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes. Charles Spurgeon friends religious jesus Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!' Charles Spurgeon winning men war The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God. Charles Spurgeon good-man christian men When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. Charles Spurgeon comforter affliction If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself. Charles Spurgeon ifs wish heaven Every generation needs regeneration Charles Spurgeon generation-gap generations needs Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life. Charles Spurgeon apples garden easter The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything. Charles Spurgeon deals littles way The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. Charles Spurgeon religious christian god 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. Charles Spurgeon hard-times cheer talking I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too? Charles Spurgeon blessing water hands There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world. Charles Spurgeon church two world Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made. Charles Spurgeon god-image made men There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ? Charles Spurgeon satan christian feelings
