C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

By C.H. Spurgeon

GRATITUDE TOWARD GOD

If we gratefully acknowledge what we have we shall be in better heart for obtaining that which as yet we have not received. TD108:8 To be out of the hospital, to be out of the lunatic asylum, to be out of prison, to be out of hell,—do we ever glorify God for these things? 1550.429 An enlightened man is grateful to God for temporal blessings; but he is much more grateful to God for spiritual blessings, for temporal blessings do not last long; they are soon gone. Temporal blessings are not definite marks of divine favour, since God gives them to the unworthy, and to the wicked, as well as to the righteous. 2266.353 If we will only think, we shall begin to thank. 2296.85