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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what shall be our position when we grow gray. Let us never boast of anything in the future, for we cannot tell what even a day may bring forth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. For he who praises himself writes himself down a fool in capital letters.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. One might endure almost any sort of labour sooner than have to live with one who is perpetually and foolishly angry.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? Envy is a snake in the grass. Christians, beware of envy. You will, perhaps, be tempted to have it in your heart when you see another Christian more useful than you are, or when some Christian brother seems to have more honour than you have. Ah, then! cry to God against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open rebuke is better than secret love. That I should love my fellow-man is a good thing; but to have love enough to be able openly to rebuke his faults, is a very high proof of affection, and far better than secret love that is silent when it ought to speak. And yet, how many persons there are who are very angry with you if you give them an open...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Beware of the flattering world, believer; beware of the flattering devil, and of the cozening of the flesh. When things go smoothly with you, there may be the greatest danger. Whatever you do in times of storm, keep a good look-out when the sea is calm and the sky is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. “The full soul loatheth” (even that luscious thing) “an honeycomb.” No true preaching will go down with him who is full of himself, full of his own importance. Unless there shall be many of the flowers of rhetoric in the discourse, he will not listen to sound...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. The Orientals were wont to smear their faces, and especially their hair with ointment and perfume, and those who came near them were pleased with the scent. When you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; Have but few friends, but stick closely to them. Above all, cleave closely to that “Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” If he be thine own Friend, and thy father’s Friend, never forsake HIM. Forsake all the world for him, but let not all the world induce thee to forsake him....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A good son is his father’s honour. If any say of such-and-such a man that he is a bad man, yet, if his children walk orderly, he can answer the slander without speaking a word. Would a bad man have brought up his children in that way? Would they be walking in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, He that taketh surety is sure, but he that goeth surety for another, and especially for a stranger, will smart for it, perhaps to the day of his death.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And take a pledge of him for a strange woman. He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. There are some men who always use such sweet words; they are so fond of you that they are up early in the morning to give you their praise, and they continue all day pouring out their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. When there is a little leak in the roof, and the rain keeps dropping through, it is very uncomfortable; but it is ten times more comfortable than it is to have to dwell with a contentious woman.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. That is to say, if a man put sweet ointment on his hand, the smell of it would soon be perceived; so, if a woman be of a contentious, angry, quarrelsome disposition, her contentiousness will be discovered, there is no hiding it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. Hence the usefulness of Christian association, and hence also the evil of sinful company, for one sinner sharpens another to do mischief, just as one saint encourages another to righteousness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. If I look into water, I see the reflection of my own face, not another man’s; and if I look into society, I shall probably see men like-minded with myself. How is it that a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. Many a man, who can bear adversity, cannot bear prosperity. The world’s censures seldom do a Christian any harm, but it is the breath of applause that often gives us the scarlet fever of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. No troubles, no afflictions, can of themselves make a fool into a wise man. The sinner remains a sinner, after all providential chastisements, unless sovereign grace interposes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Be not slothful in business; and, above all, let the Christian be diligent to know the state of his own heart.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the...