C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

By C.H. Spurgeon

EMOTIONALISM

When passion has run away with a man, who knows where it will carry him? PP143 Ah! dear friends, one half of the emotions excited in our places of worship are of no more value than those excited at the theatre. 653.559 That which is wrought by noise will subside when quiet reigns, as the bubble dies with the wave which bore it. 1147.703 That devotion which must always show itself by shouting may be very genuine, but it is to be feared that it is superficial. Deep waters run silently. Great feeling is dumb: there is a frost of the mouth when there is a thaw of the soul. 2072.118