C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

To bury a child is a great grief, but to have that child live and sin against you is ten times worse. 673.69 No cross is so heavy to carry as a living cross. Next to a woman who is bound to an ungodly husband, or a man who is unequally yoked with a graceless wife, I pity the father whose children are not walking in the truth, who yet is himself an earnest Christian. 1148.715 We could well put up with the little mistakes, and petulancies, and follies, and even sins of their earliest days; but the sting is when, having left our roof, they leave our teaching; when, having gone from our trainings, they do not abide in them, but plunge into sin, and prove to us most sadly that grace does not run in the blood, but that natural depravity most certainly does. 3356.254 I think we never ought to repine so much about the death of a child as about the ungodly life of a child. 3499.77