"Idleness is the key of beggary." — Charles Spurgeon

"Idleness is the key of beggary."

— Charles Spurgeon

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1,046 Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon has 1,046 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but…
The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world…
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do…
The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul…
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have…
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is…
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are…
Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to…
Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

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More Beggary Quotes

This quote is filed under Beggary Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned — William Shakespeare
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And… — William Shakespeare
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or… — John Milton
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are… — Simone Weil
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they… — David Hume
CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.… — William Shakespeare
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at… — Joseph Addison
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear. — Benjamin Franklin
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or… — John Milton
‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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