"The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus. "
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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
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"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
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"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. "
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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"Of two evils, choose neither."
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
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"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
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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."
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"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."
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"Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite."
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"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."
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Charles Spurgeon’s Quotes
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