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21 " Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Lectures to My Students
22 " Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. "
23 " If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast. "
24 " It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion. "
25 " Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again. "
26 " It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. "
27 " My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service. "
28 " The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer. "
29 " Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. "
30 " A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive. "
31 " One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear. "
32 " Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying. "
33 " More faults are created than cured by professional teachers. "
34 " A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed. "
35 " I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. "
36 " Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work. "
37 " We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace, "
38 " Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. "
39 " You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. "
40 " Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach. "