C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

An ounce of obedience is better than a ton of learning. CC78 You are twisting the sapling, and the old oak will be bent thereby. CC94 To be snatched out of the vortex of vice is cause for great gratitude, but to have been kept out of it is better. GS213 Prevention is better than cure, and grace gives both. GS213 A child’s back must be made to bend, but it must not be broken. He must be ruled, but not with a rod of iron. His spirit must be conquered, but not crushed. PP70 Give to a pig when it grunts, and to a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a spoiled child. PT37 If we never have headaches through rebuking our little children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. PT38 Never promise a child and then fail to perform, whether you promise him a bun or a beating. PT38 Young colts must be broken in or they will make wild horses. PT93 Not to cross our children is the way to make a cross of them. Those who never give their children the rod, must not wonder if their children become a rod to them. PT93 Cultivate a child’s heart for good, or it will go wrong of itself, for it is already depraved by nature. TN80 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth, for youth, when honoured and esteemed, is too apt to lift its head and grow self-conceited, vain, and froward. 487.7 We cannot impart to our children new hearts, but we can see to it that there shall be nothing within our gates that is derogatory to the religion of Jesus Christ. I charge you see to it. But you cannot control your children, you say. Then the Lord have mercy upon you! It is your business to do it, and you must do it, or else you will soon find out they will control you; and no one knows what judgment will come from God upon those who suffer sin in children and servants to go unrebuked. 1097.102 The most difficult part of the training of young men is not to put the right thing into them, but to get the wrong thing out of them. 1894.198 I have heard of one man who said that he did not like to prejudice his boy, so he would not say anything to him about religion. The devil, however, was quite willing to prejudice the lad, so very early in life he learnt to swear, although his father had a foolish and wicked objection to teaching him to pray. If you ever feel it incumbent upon you not to prejudice a piece of ground by sowing good seed in it, you may rest assured that the weeds will not imitate your impartiality, but they will take possession of the land in a very sad and shocking manner. Where the plough does not go, and the seed is not sown, the weeds are quite sure to multiply; and if children are left untutored and untrained, all sorts of evils will spring up in their hearts and lives. 2731.278