"Many people are born crying, live complaining,..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon
Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.
More by Charles Spurgeon
“Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”
“If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”
More on Patience
“Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.”
“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”
“You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.”
More on Contentment
“The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.”
“Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.”
“You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”