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41 " The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Lectures to My Students
42 " It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity. "
43 " It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God. "
44 " The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness. "
45 " Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you. "
46 " God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. "
47 " Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. "
48 " Be interested yourself, and you will interest others. "
49 " The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly , but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively. "
50 " If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well. "
51 " Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology. "
52 " Despondency, is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God. "
53 " It is not true that some doctors are only for the initiated. There is NOTHING in Scripture which is ashamed of the light. "
54 " A most elaborate theory may be constructed by a devout mind. "
55 " May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations. "
56 " The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb "
57 " Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in. "
58 " It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. "
59 " It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. "
60 " Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive. "