Charles Haddon Quotes

if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.

All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

carve your name on hearts and not on marble.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.