Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Idleness (1869)
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English · 1834-1892 · 41 quotes
English · 1834–1892
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the Victorian Baptist preacher who filled London's Metropolitan Tabernacle for nearly forty years and became the most widely read religious writer of the nineteenth century. Born in Essex in 1834, he was preaching to thousands by the time he was nineteen, a phenomenon that attracted as much hostility from established religion as admiration from the public. He published prolifically — sermons, devotionals, commentaries — and his collected works run to sixty-three volumes. But his enduring quality is his aphoristic directness: a man who does nothing never has time to do anything; it is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. Spurgeon understood that a sermon, like a good sentence, must arrest attention before it can change minds. He died in 1892, exhausted and ill, having never stopped trying.
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Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self