C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

FAILURE* read more quotes relating to emotional issues I hope that those who are always thinking of success as certainly involving pride, may also take to themselves the comfortable reflection that their non-success, suggesting as it may very bitter thoughts about their brethren, may also be pride only in another direction. 365.141 All human work which does not begin and end in the Lord Jesus must be a non-success. 567.247 FAITH* read more quotes relating to doctrine He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them. AM330 Brethren, I believe in that which I could not have invented. I believe that which I cannot understand. I believe that which compels me to adore, and I thank God for a rock that is higher than I am. AM334 Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession. AP52 Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience. BA88 Faith laughs at that which fear weeps over. BA88 The grandeur of the arch of heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a single visible column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything discernible by the carnal eye. ME488 Faith trades in marvels, and her merchandise is with wonders. SW154 We are not to look to what we have. The witness of the senses only confuses those who would walk by faith. WCo52 Now, I hold no man’s faith to be sure faith unless he knows what he believes. 107.2 In matters relating to the body, we feel first and then believe; my hand smarts, and therefore I believe it has been wounded. But in things relating to the soul, you believe first and feel afterwards. 492.67 We do not walk by sight and faith, but “we walk by faith not by sight.” To let us occasionally see would, in fact, remove us out of the realm of faith, and bring us down from the high position of believers to the low platform of sight-seers. 1254.518 Faith is both God’s gift and man’s act. The Lord is the author of our faith, but we ourselves believe. 1367.434 Faith receives more stabs from waverers than from avowed sceptics. 1641.54 A child needs the cup to drink out of, but it cannot drink out of an empty cup. Faith is the cup, but Christ is the fountain. Faith is a secondary thing compared with Christ. 1744.560 Fret and worry, hurry and haste, are all slain by the hand of faith. 1756.703 A faith which works not for purification will work for putrefaction. Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, and pant after conformity to God, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that. 1790.388 Untried faith is questionable faith. Is it faith at all? 1874.664 Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. 1981.496 Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ’s reconciliation to the sore of our sin. 2000.714 Faith is the assurance of sonship, the pledge of inheritance, the grasp of boundless possession, the perception of the invisible. Within thy faith there lies glory, even as the oak sleeps within the acorn. 2055.649 Remember the impossibility of pleasing the Lord without faith, and do not dash your ship upon this iron-bound coast. 2100.450 My Lord gives me unlimited credit at the Bank of Faith. 2129.95 We need faith for ploughing, for buying, for selling, for working, quite as much as for praying, and singing, and preaching. 2147.303 Only that is true faith which believes everything that is revealed by the Holy Spirit, whether it be joyous or distressing. 2147.303 We would be humble, and learn to believe what we cannot altogether comprehend, and to expect what we should never have looked for, had not the Lord declared it. It is our ambition to be great believers, rather than great thinkers; to be child-like in faith, rather than subtle in intellect. 2147.304 Faith is the soul’s eye by which it sees the Lord. Faith is the soul’s ear by which we hear what God the Lord will speak. Faith is the spiritual hand which touches and grasps the things not seen as yet. Faith is the spiritual nostril which perceives the precious perfume of our Lord’s garments, which smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Faith also is the soul’s taste by which we perceive the sweetness of our Lord, and enjoy it for ourselves. 2168.558 Faith is sanctified common-sense. 2297.98 Faith is, in one sense, the gift of God; but, in another sense, it is a mental act for which we are responsible. God gives us faith, but he does not believe for us. 3008.490 Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not. 3370.423 It takes much more faith to be an unbeliever than to be a believer. 3512.237 -DEAD read more quotes relating to doctrine Now, sirs! any kind of faith in Christ which does not change your life is the faith of devils, and will take you where devils are, but will never take you to heaven. 3390.40 -DEFINITION OF read more quotes relating to doctrine The old writers, who are by far the most sensible—for you will notice that the books that were written about two hundred years ago, by the old Puritans, have more sense in one line than there is in a page of our new books, and more in a page than there is in a whole volume of our modern divinity—the old writers tell you, that faith is made up of three things: first knowledge, then assent, and then what they call affiance, or the laying hold of the knowledge to which we give assent, and making it our own by trusting in it. 107.2 It is one of the most notable points about faith that it is sanctified common-sense. That is not at all a bad definition of faith. 1421.369 -OBJECT OF read more quotes relating to doctrine My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. On the lion of justice the fair maid of hope rides like a queen. ME538 The world hangs on nothing; but faith cannot hang upon itself, it must hang on Christ. 228.30 -SAVING read more quotes relating to doctrine The faith which saves is not one single act done and ended on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the entire life of man. WA134 Brethren, the Lord must not only open the gates of heaven to us at the last, but he must open the gates of our heart to faith at the first. 551.51 If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act. 2191.114 Faith is the channel of salvation, not the fountain and source of it. 2898.410 -WEAK read more quotes relating to doctrine If thou hast weak faith, thou wilt have broken joys and many discomforts. 2173.618 FAITHFULNESS* read more quotes relating to truth Be faithful every day that you may be faithful to the end. Let not your life be like a tangled mass of yarn, but keep it ever in due order on the distaff, so that, whenever the fatal knife shall cut the thread, it may end just where an enlightened judgment would have wished. PM230 You have had but little entrusted to you! Then the less trouble for you to make use of your talents. The man who has many talents requires much hard labour to use them all. 175.84 You cannot expect that God should send you forth to conquer and to bring to him renown, when you have not as yet conquered your own personal indolence and disobedience. He that is unfaithful in that which is least will be unfaithful in that which is greater; and if you have not kept the Master’s sayings in the little vineyard of your personal history, how much less shall you be able to do it if he should entrust you with a greater field of service! 795.86 Moreover, brethren, let us not be unduly cast down if we cannot set everybody right. Truly, the body politic, common society, and especially the church, may cause us great anxiety; but still the Lord reigneth, and we are not to let ourselves die of grief. After all, our Lord does not expect us to rectify everything, for he only requires of us what he enables us to do. 1984.538 If we do as God commands, and do not seem to succeed, it is no fault of ours. Failure itself would be success as long as we did not fail to obey. 2195.165 We can win “Well done, good and faithful servant”: to be a successful servant is not in our power, and we shall not be held responsible for it. 2195.166 Have you, dear friend, made any sacrifices for Christ? Have you lately been called to imperil your own interests by pursuing a right course? Have you been steadfast even though you have lost friendships? Have you been so firm in your adherence to principle that you have been judged to be obstinate? Well, if so, you shall be no loser through your faithfulness. 2814.26 We are not faithful in what is given to us, and if the one talent often lies wrapped in a napkin, how can we expect to have five or ten entrusted to us? 3376.498 FALL, THE read more quotes relating to doctrine My brethren, when man fell in the garden, manhood fell entirely; there was not one single pillar in the temple of manhood that stood erect. 182.140 The very garments that you wear show that you have discovered your shame. The daily labours which weary you prove that you are not in paradise. The very preaching of the gospel implies that you are in a sinful world. You are not possessed of a will unbiased, or inclined to that which is good: you have chosen the evil, and still continue to choose it; and therefore I should only be proposing to you a road in which you have already stumbled, and I should be setting you a task in which you have already broken down. 2210.341 The fall—what a mysterious thing that is! It might have been prevented. I cannot hold any limit to the omnipotence of God: if he had willed it, there need not have been a fall. Then why did he permit it? I reply to that in the same spirit. I do not know, and I do not want to know; but I think I can see such a display of divine mercy, and love, and grace, and every other attribute, in the redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the fall, terrible thing as it is, seems to be a grand platform on which the glory of God could be displayed. 3420.403 FALSE PROFESSORS read more quotes relating to unbelief Every grace can be counterfeited, even as jewels can be imitated. AP3 A boy in the streets, selling mince-pies, kept crying, “Hot mince-pies!” A person bought one of them, and found it quite cold. “Boy,” said he, “why do you call these pies hot?” “That’s the name they go by, sir,” said the boy. So there are plenty of people who are called Christians, but they are not Christians—that’s the name they go by; but all the substance is drained out of them by other matters. BA35 “Is your father a Christian?” said a Sunday-school teacher to a child. The girl answered, “Yes, I believe that father is a Christian; but he has not worked much at it lately.” No doubt there are many of that sort. Their religion has taken a holiday, and they themselves have gone to a sluggard’s bed. Let them be aroused, for it is high time to awaken out of sleep. BA125 Fish sometimes leap out of the water with great energy, but it would be foolish to conclude that they have left the liquid element for ever, in a moment they are swimming again as if they had never forsaken the stream; indeed, it was but a fly that tempted them aloft, or a sudden freak, the water is still their home, sweet home. When we see long-accustomed sinners making a sudden leap at religion, we may not make too sure that they are converts; perhaps some gain allures them, or sudden excitement stirs them, and if so they will be back again at their old sins. Let us hope well, but let us not commend too soon. FA46 If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. ME355 It very often happens that the converts that are born in excitement die when the excitement is over. SW16 Ah, souls! ye may paint yourselves as ye will, but unless ye have the genuine matter, ye will never be able to pass the judgment-seat of God. Ye may gild and varnish, but he will say, “Take it away,” and like the painted face of Jezebel, which the dogs did eat, despite the paint, so shall you yourselves be utterly devoured, despite the fair picture that you made. 423.604 If I had an offer now of losing this right arm and having to endure in this church some such falls as we have had to mourn over, and as the world has seen of late among high professors, I do feel I can say without hypocrisy, I would choose to be cut limb from limb sooner than see those whom I have loved and honoured fall from the faith; for it is a bitter thing to us who are ministers of Christ; it is our curse and plague; it costs us sleepless nights and miserable days when we hear of those that did run well apparently who turn back to the world, who play the Judas (it were bad enough if they played the Peter) and become the devil’s servants, though they once wore the livery of Christ. 717.595 An ungodly man may lie down in the church of God with the lambs of the flock, and nothing may lead you to suspect his true character, but when the time comes for him to make profit by sin, or to get pleasure by sin, or to escape from persecution by sin, then you find out what he is. 976.102 Let them get home to their knees and pray God to give them manliness enough at least to be damned honestly, and not go down to perdition wearing the name of Christian when Christians they are not. 1158.107 We would with the utmost charity hope the best, but we cannot conceal from ourselves with fear and trembling that a large mass of professors are so worldly, so fond of every trifling amusement, so given up to self, and so negligent of anything like zealous service of God, that they cannot be Christians, though they profess to be such. 1177.332 Many professors only keep upright because they stand in a row, and derive support from their associations. 1418.328 He who does nothing believes nothing—that is to say, in reality and in truth. Faith is but an empty show if it produces no result upon the life. If a professor manifests no energy, no industry, no zeal, no perseverance, no endeavour to serve God, there is cause gravely to question whether he is a believer at all. 1599.282 Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. 2088.310 Multitudes of religious persons are like wax-works, well-proportioned, and you might mistake them by candle-light for life; but in the light of God you would soon discover that there is a mighty difference, for the best that human skill can do is a poor imitation of real life. 2186.53 There are too many of our converts about; we may find them everywhere except in heaven; but woe unto the man who is content with being the convert of his fellow-man! 2599.585 Why, these are sham Christians; they are not genuine Christians; they are of the world, and do the things of the world. We may conclude that their hearts and natures are worldly, for if they were spiritual they would love spiritual things, and their hearts would be engaged in spiritual exercises. 3366.383 FALSE PROPHETS* read more quotes relating to unbelief I can conceive no surer method of prejudicing men against the truth than by sounding her praises through the lips of men of suspicious character. When the devil turned preacher in the Lord’s day, the Master bade him hold his peace; he did not care for Satanic praises. It is very ridiculous to hear good truth from a bad man; it is like flour in a coal-sack. 2LS45 Religious deceivers are the worst of vermin, and I fear they are as plentiful as rats in an old wheatstack. PT134 Almost every impostor who has come into the world has aimed principally at the rich, and the mighty, and the respectable; very few impostors have found it to be worth their while to make it prominent in their preaching that they preach to the poor. 114.58 The devil has more to do with some men’s pitiless theology than they imagine. 1220.125 I loathe to hear our true Lord praised by false lips. They deny the doctrines which he taught, and yet prate about believing him. It is a shallow trick, but yet it deceives shallow souls. 1770.149 O blessed Jesus, it is the same still, thou wilt not dazzle or amuse, and therefore men prefer any charlatan to thee. 2051.605 As for the new doctrine that many are teaching, it has not enough in it to make even a mouse enthusiastic; it has not enough in it for them to bait a mouse-trap of their own, and the only way in which they can make any progress at all is by sneaking into our churches, obtaining a hearing and winning attention, and then, traitors as they are, speaking against the very truth that has built our houses of prayer. 2416.270 All false prophets have sought to keep their disciples at a distance, and to impress upon them, not merely a high estimation of their importance, but also a superstitious reverence for their person; ay, and sometimes altogether putting aside the thought of allowing any of their disciples to hold communion with them. 2572.253 Who, think you, are the more honest men,—those who tell you plainly what the Scriptures say concerning this wrath of God, or those who smooth it over, or deny it altogether? 2704.581 FAME read more quotes relating to ego Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. ME280 Gain and fame are only so much foam of the sea. All the wealth and honour the whole world can afford would be too slender a thread to bear up the happiness of an immortal soul. TD62:10 Fame is not an impartial judge; she has her favourites. Some men she extolls, exalts, and almost deifies; others, whose virtues are far greater, and whose characters are more deserving of commendation, she passes by unheeded, and puts the finger of silence on her lips. WC43 The world soon forgets its benefactors. WCo87 The world will never believe a man famous unless he constantly outdoes himself. WWi124 How sad for a soul to know that the clangour of fame’s trumpet is dying away from its ears to be superseded by the blast of that awful trumpet ordained to wake the dead and call them to their last account! 890.512 Ye shall not have his smiles if the smiles of the world will do as well. 1655.224 To have people for ever talking about you, for you, and against you is one of the wearinesses of mortal life; and yet some people sigh for the fuss that others would be glad to be rid of. 1733.424 Men even carry to the extreme of folly any slight connection with the great, like the man who boasted that the king had spoken to him, when it turned out that all his majesty said was, “Get out of the way!” 2137.190 Full many a name in the roll of fame has been written there with a finger dipped in blood. It would seem as if men loved those most who have killed the most of them. 2187.61 “Nobody knows me,” says one. Well, it is not a very desirable thing that anybody should know you: those of us who are known to everybody would be very glad if we were not; there is no very great comfort in it. 2216.411 “Oh!” says one, “but a man may be famous without God.” Yes, in a sense he may; but have you ever analyzed fame? Of what good is it to a dead man? Of what good is it to a damned man? A man in hell, and his name in every newspaper! A man in the bottomless pit, and they say that he is one of the great men of the age, who has left his mark upon the world; but if it is a mark without God, what kind of mark is it? A mark that had better be obliterated as soon as possible. No creature can be a success unless it pleases its Creator. 2559.113 Nothing that man makes for man will endure. Build on, ye despots; but Time, a mightier king than you, will pull down all that you put up. 3142.209 “Ah!” says Death again, as he smites him with his cold hand, “who can tell the difference between the skull of the learned and the skull of the ignorant when the worm has emptied them both?” 3185.89 What is your name or your character, after all? Who will be any the better for your caring about such an insignificant creature as you are? Why, when you are dead and gone, the world will not miss you! It is wonderful what great beings we are in our own esteem, and yet what little beings we really are, after all! 3239.103 A man may be guilty of nearly every form of iniquity, but so long as he is rich, nothing is said against him; yet, if another possesses every virtue, but in addition to that is poor, prejudice has not a word to say in his favour. 3312.354 FASTING read more quotes relating to body issues If we only ate about half what is ordinarily eaten, we should probably all of us be in better health; and if, occasionally, we put ourselves on short commons, not because there is any virtue in that, but in order to get our brains more clear, and to help our hearts to rest more fully upon the Saviour, we should find that prayer and fasting have great power. WE48 And what is fasting for? That seems the difficult point. It is evidently accessory to the peculiar continuance in prayer, practised oftentimes by our Lord, and advised by him to his disciples. Not a kind of religious observance, in itself meritorious, but a habit, when associated with the exercise of prayer, unquestionably helpful. 549.35 I believe, literally, that some of you would be a great deal the better if you did occasionally have a whole day of fasting and prayer. There is a lightness that comes over the frame, especially of bulky people like myself; we begin to feel ourselves quite light and ethereal. 2454.104 FATALISM read more quotes relating to doctrine I hear one say, “Well, sir, you seem to be a fatalist!” No, far from it. There is just this difference between fate and providence. Fate is blind; providence has eyes. Fate is blind, a thing that must be; it is just an arrow shot from a bow, that must fly onward, but hath no target. Not so, providence; providence is full of eyes. There is a design in everything, and an end to be answered; all things are working together, and working together for good. 187.181 FEAR read more quotes relating to emotional issues Unless the Lord has judged our fears to be a great evil, He would not so often have forbidden them, or have provided such a heavenly quietus for them. WC132 Permit me to say there is nothing in the Bible to make any man fear who puts his trust in Jesus. Nothing in the Bible, did I say? There is nothing in heaven, nothing on earth, nothing in hell, that need make you fear who trust in Jesus. “Fear not ye.” The past you need not fear, it is forgiven you; the present you need not fear, it is provided for; the future also is secured by the living power of Jesus. 863.189 Half our fears are the result of ignorance. 1950.124 Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. 1980.489 It is not what we see that we dread, so much as that which we do not see, and therefore exaggerate. 1985.543 When I went, last week, to see one of the members of this church who is very ill, I had a little of my own teaching given back to me. This dear brother said to me, “Do you remember saying to us, years ago, ‘What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee,’ is a third-class carriage, but it is in the gospel train, and it will take you to heaven;” but you added, “Why do you not go in the first-class carriage,—‘I will trust, and not be afraid’?” Let faith expel fear, and so travel to heaven first-class. 2636.405 -OF GOD read more quotes relating to emotional issues Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy. ME227 The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. 748.250 This disease of fear came into man’s heart with sin. Adam never was afraid of his God till he had broken his commands. 930.267 Fear is not a mean motive; it is a very proper motive for a guilty man to feel. 1798.492 As for me, I have braved the sneer of men because I feared the frown of my Lord. 3520.333 -OF MAN read more quotes relating to emotional issues Some of you dare not do a thing that you know to be right, because somebody might make a remark about it. What are you but slaves? 2888.297 FEDERAL HEADSHIP read more quotes relating to doctrine Adam was our federal head; he represented us; and when he sinned, we sinned representatively in him, and what he did was imputed to us. You say that you never agreed to the imputation. Nay, but I would not have you say thus, for as by representation we fell, it is by the representative system that we rise. 395.381 We fell, by no act of our own, in the first Adam; and we rise, without any merit of our own, in the second Adam. 2762.27 Always remember that the federal principle has been adopted by God in his dealings with the human race from the very beginning. 2933.207 If any object to this principle of representation, that does not affect its truth, and I would also remind them that, by this very principle of representation, a way was left open for our restoration. The angels did not sin representatively, they sinned personally and individually; and therefore there is no hope of their restoration, but they are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” But men sinned representatively, and this is a happy circumstance for us, “for as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” As we fell through one representative, it was consistent with the principles upon which God was governing mankind that he should allow us to rise by another Representative. At first, we fell not by our own fault; so now, by grace, we rise not by our own merit. 3198.242 FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD* read more quotes relating to spiritual disciplines Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus—humility, happiness, and holiness. ME266 Tell me who they are that sit oftenest under the banner of His love, and drink deepest draughts from the cup of communion, and I am sure they will be those who give most, who serve best, and who abide closest to the bleeding heart of their dear Lord. ME395 He who communes with God is always at home. TD61:4 Sin is usually at the bottom of all the hidings of the Lord’s face; let us ask the Lord to reveal the special form of it to us, that we may repent of it, overcome it, and henceforth forsake it. TD74:1 Communion is the mother of adoration. TD84:4 If we want to taste heaven’s blessed dainties while here below, let us walk in unbroken fellowship with him—so we shall get two heavens, a little heaven below, and a boundless heaven above, when our turn shall come to go home. 1136.576 The Lord may be very close to thee, dear child, when thou canst not see him, perhaps closer than ever he was when thou couldst see him. The presence of God is not to be measured by thy realization of it. 1793.425 We want one of the two—either to commune with God, or else to sigh and cry till we do so. 2053.630 A sitting silently at the feet of Jesus is of more worth than all the clatter of Martha’s dishes. 2072.119 Sinning will make you leave off communion with God, or else communion with God will make you leave off sinning: one of the two things must occur. 2135.166 All the infidels in the world, and all the devils in hell, will never make you doubt the truth of the Scriptures if you have once been face to face with Christ, and have spoken with your Master as a man speaketh with his friend. 2486.489 The active life will have little power in it if it is not accompanied by much of the contemplative and the prayerful. 2729.254 Thy communion may be transient, but thy corruption is perpetual. To be with Christ is but a thing of a moment with thee, but to be with thy corruption is a thing of every hour in the day. 3013.542 Brethren, we miss a thousand blessings because we are too busy to commune with God. We are here, there, and everywhere, except where we ought to be. 3219.496 Are you going to let go your God because you have lost his smile? Then I ask you, Did you base your faith upon his smile? for if you did, you mistook the true ground of faith. The ground of a believer’s confidence is not God’s smile, but God’s promise. 3507.173 FELLOWSHIP WITH THE SAINTS read more quotes about spiritual disciplines The converse of saints on earth should be a rehearsal of their everlasting communion in heaven. TN156 In walking, friends become communicative—one tells his trouble, and the other tries to console him under it, and then imparts to him his own secret in return. When persons are constantly in the habit of walking together from choice, you may be quite sure there are many communications between them with which no stranger may intermeddle. 1307.436 I once visited an aged Christian woman who said to me when she was near death, “Sir, I do not think that God will appoint me my portion with the ungodly, for I could never bear their company; and I do hope I shall be among his people, though I am very unworthy, for I never was so happy as when I was with them.” Yes, you will keep the same company for ever. The sheep shall be with the sheep, and the goats with the goats. Your delight prophesies your destiny. 1373.514 I cultivate the practice of endeavouring to see my Lord in all his people, for he IS there, and it is irreverent not to honour him. He IS with them, and is in them; why should we doubt it? That is something worth remembering. If so many temples of the Holy Ghost come together, why, surely, the Holy Ghost himself is there, and the place whereon they stand is holy ground. 1761.45 Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people. 1807.597 Warm-hearted saints keep each other warm, but cold is also contagious. 1963.285 If any of you are in positions where you can enjoy Christian fellowship, and you have an opportunity of earning ten times as much money in another position where you must give up that fellowship, do not do it. 3037.211 Let us treasure the virtues and excellences of our fellow-members, and search for signs of the Spirit’s work in them; and, remembering our own imperfections and failures, let us not fix our eyes upon their defects. 3130.64 FINANCIAL SPECULATION read more quotes relating to finances/wealth He pulls at a long rope who waits for another’s death; he who hunts after legacies had need have iron shoes. PT106 Once in a while one man in a million may stumble against a fortune, but thousands ruin themselves by idle expectations. Expect to get half of what you earn, a quarter of what is your due, and none of what you have lent, and you will be near the mark; but to look for a fortune to fall from the moon is to play the fool with a vengeance. PT107 A little trade with profit is better than a great concern at a loss; a small fire that warms you is better than a large fire that burns you. PT140