C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

We are not among those who are suspicious of youthful piety: we could never see more reason for such suspicions in the case of the young than in the case of those who repent later in life. Of the two we think the latter are more to be questioned than the former: for a selfish fear of punishment and dread of death are more likely to produce a counterfeit faith than mere childishness would be. CC6 Jesus will not be dishonoured by the children: we have far more cause to fear the adults. CC20 I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty. It is an old proverb that some children are born with beards. CC24 Capacity for believing lies more in the child than in the man. We grow less rather than more capable of faith: every year brings the unregenerate mind further away from God, and makes it less capable of receiving the things of God. CC24 God forgive those who despise the little ones! Will you be very angry if I say that a boy is more worth saving than a man? CC25 It is assuredly a noble part of benevolence to deliver the gospel to the sons of men; and, if possible, this benevolence is of a still higher kind when you deliver the truth of God to children, for as prevention is better than a cure, so is it better to prevent a life of vice than to rescue from it; and as the earlier a soul has light the shorter is its night of darkness, so the earlier in life salvation comes to the heart the better, and greater is the benediction. WCo91 Conversion saves a child from a multitude of sins. WCo126 To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. WCo126 Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art. 1148.710 If you are professing Christians, but cannot say that you have no greater joy than the conversion of your children, you have reason to question whether you ought to have made such a profession at all. 1148.710