Quote #89

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

  1. To know what men have already done is a light matter compared with knowing what men will yet do.
  2. We are all at times unconscious prophets.
  3. To be prepared to die is to be prepared to live. To be ready for eternity is in the best sense to be ready for time. Who is so fit to live …
  4. We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.
  5. There is something for us to do in the wilderness, and so we are kept out of the heavenly garden for now.
  6. We are not what we ought to be, we are not what we want to be, we are not what we shall be. But we are something very different from what w…
  7. There is not a spider hanging on the wall that doesn't have an errand; there is not a weed growing in the corner of the church lot hat does…
  8. We cling with dreadful tenacity to this poor life, and the little pleasures which we foolishly call our all.

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