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 SPURGEONGod gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.
More Charles Spurgeon Quotes
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To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
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If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
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I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.
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God has so made man’s heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.
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We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
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We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.
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My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.
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The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.
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If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.
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Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
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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?
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The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
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We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, ‘Is it pleasant?’ but, ‘Is it true?’
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Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
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We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
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