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Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze QUOTES

1 " A man believes in his own ability, and unless he is altogether a piece of emptiness, he gradually convinces others that his assessment is correct. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

2 " It is certain that from the apostolic period to the Dark Ages, if the church advanced at all, it was in a backward direction. Religious thought digressed in a wretched fashion away from truth for several centuries. It is more than possible that modern thought is starting on another such digressive period. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

3 " Charles Spurgeon often preached ten times a week, preaching to an estimated ten million people during his lifetime. He usually preached from only one page of notes, and often from just an outline. He read about six books each week. During his lifetime, he had read The Pilgrim’s Progress through more than one hundred times. When he died, his personal library consisted of more than 12,000 books. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

4 " Now if self-reliance can make a man, how much more can God-reliance! This latter choice is more justifiable, more humble, more sure, and more praiseworthy. Our own powers can only reach so far and no further; we are all tethered and unable to go beyond our limit. But the divine power is unlimited and unchangeable; therefore, he who makes it his trust has a force at his back incomparably beyond all others. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

5 " It has been said, “Nothing is easier than to doubt. A man of moderate ability or learning can doubt more than the wisest men believe.” Faith demands knowledge, for it is an intelligent grace, able and anxious to justify itself; but infidelity is not required to give a reason for the doubt that is in it. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

6 " In fact, the present trend of unbelief is to know nothing, and what is this but the epitome of ignorance? "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

7 " A brave soul will not tamely follow the ignoble way of the many but will aspire to the higher paths even if they are more difficult. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

8 " He who made all things is more truly an object of confidence than all the things that he has made. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

9 " The old hammer in our forge is faith in God. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

10 " In the eleventh chapter of his epistle to the Hebrews, Paul brings forth an honor roll of faith’s heroes and erects an Arc de Triomphe (arch to celebrate a victory) to their memory. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

11 " How is it that no such trophy has ever been raised to the honor of unbelief? Will the poet of infidelity and the historian of skepticism yet appear? If so, what will their record be? Wrought righteousness, obtained promises are not products of doubt (Hebrews 11:33). Doubt is not likely to endure much suffering to obtain a better resurrection, for it sneers at the mention of such a thing; the eulogist of doubt would have to be content with lower achievements. But what would they be? What hospitals or orphanages has doubt erected? What missions to cannibal tribes has infidelity sustained? What fallen women or profligate men has skepticism reclaimed and recreated? "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

12 " The fact is that doubt is negative, destructive, and sterile. It inhibits man to nobler things and fails to create hopes and aspirations in the human mind. It is by no means a principle upon which to base life’s fabric, for whatever force it has is subversive and not constructive. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

13 " Those who prefer to do so may doubt, and doubt, and doubt to the dregs of nothing, but our choice is to find truth and believe it – that it may be a life force to us. No devotee has yet had the audacity to preach a doctrine of “doubt and live,” for to manifestly doubt is akin to death; but “believe and live” is the essence of the message from heaven, and we accept it. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze

14 " It little matters where the reading begins; let the volume fall open as if by chance, and the reader will still discover the same singular majesty of style. It is unique. Although the many books that compose the library called the Bible were written by some forty or more authors, and each writer had his own idiosyncrasy of utterance, yet the style of the entire volume is one. It is indeed singular that the unity of tone should be so eminently preserved amid the plurality of voices. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Honest Faith: Or, The Clue of the Maze