Quote #72

The dog hole of selfishness can never afford you any comfort. When the first and last concern of a man is simply his own feelings, or his own enjoyment, he cannot get any good feelings or any enjoyment either.

More from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

  1. The Christian should work as if all depended on him, and pray as if it all depended on God.
  2. The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
  3. Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.
  4. The keenest griefs cut a narrow but deep channel, and as they wear into the inmost soul they flow without noise.
  5. Some men of little faith are perpetually enshrouded with fears; their faith seems only strong enough to enable them to doubt.
  6. The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
  7. Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
  8. The Lord Jesus fills out every type, figure, and character. Creation is too small a frame in which to hang his likeness. Human thought is t…

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