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Quotes from Sermons — Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892 England

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I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.

Sermons (1854)

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me.

Sermons (1854)

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Sermons (1854)

Women are best when they are quiet.

Sermons (1854)

Men are microcosms, or little worlds; each man has his distinct sphere, wherein he dwells apart. We are so many worlds, and no one world of man exactly overlaps another. You cannot completely know your fellowman.

Sermons (1854)

Wisdom is, I suppose, 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.

Sermons (1854)

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is powder enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.

Sermons (1854)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Spurgeon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.