"If God calls you to be a..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Suffering saints are living seed.”

“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

“The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.”

“We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

“Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.”

“Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.”