Talks to Farmers Quotes

“We ought to be reflections of Christ; but I fear many are reflections upon Christ. When we see a lot of lazy servants, we are apt to think that their master must also be a very idle person, or they would never put up with them. Those who employ sluggards and are satisfied with their snail-like pace, cannot be very active people themselves. We should never let the world think that Christ is indifferent to human woe, that Christ has lost his zeal, that Christ has lost his energy. Yet I fear some will say it or think it if they see those who profess to be laborers in the vineyard of Christ as nothing better than mere sluggards. The slothful, then, are those void of understanding; they lose the honor and pleasure they would find in serving their Master. They are a dishonor to the God they profess to worship.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers: Inspiring, Uplifting, Faith-Building Meditations

“You are not asked to do in the service of God that which is utterly beyond you, for God expects actions of us according to what we have, not according to what we have not.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers: Inspiring, Uplifting, Faith-Building Meditations

“True wisdom is practical; boastful culture brags and theorizes. Wisdom plows its field, wisdom hoes its vineyard, wisdom looks to its crops, wisdom tries to make the best of everything, and he who does not do so—whatever may be his knowledge of this, that, or the other—is a man void of understanding.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers: Inspiring, Uplifting, Faith-Building Meditations

“Men generally learn wisdom if they have wisdom. The artist’s eye sees the beauty of the landscape because she has beauty in her mind. “To him that has shall be given,” and he shall have abundance, for he shall reap a harvest even from the field that is covered with thorns and nettles. There is a great difference between one individual and another in the use of the mind’s eye.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers: Inspiring, Uplifting, Faith-Building Meditations

“What has the church been doing all these years? She ceased after a few centuries to be a missionary church, and from that hour she almost ceased to be a living church. Whenever a church does not labor for the reclaiming of the desert, it becomes itself a waste.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers

“Many talk of what they can do and what they cannot do, and I fear they miss the vital point. Faith is leaving off the can-ing and cannot-ing, and leaving it all to Christ, for he can do all things, though you can do nothing.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers

“Happy are they who have a religion that is grounded upon a clear knowledge of eternal verities.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers

“Cultivate a child’s heart for good, or it will go wrong of itself, for it is already depraved by nature.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers