Charles Spurgeon

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

“FAITH may be well described as taking hold upon Divine instruction. God has condescended to teach us and it is ours to hear with attention and receive His words. And while we are hearing, faith comes, even that faith which saves the soul.”

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

“THE first sentence has reference to a net, in which birds or beasts are taken. The ungodly man first of all finds sin to be a bait, and, charmed by its apparent pleasantness he indulges in it, and then he becomes entangled in its meshes…”

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

“IT IS A VERY HAPPY CIRCUMSTANCE when the commandment of our father and the law of our mother are also the commandment of God and the law of the Lord.”

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

“STRONG towers were a greater security in a bygone age than they are now. Then when troops of marauders invaded the land, strong castles were set upon the various hilltops, and the inhabitants gathered up their little wealth and fled there at once.”

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

“THIS slothful man seems to cherish that one dread of his about lions as if it were his favorite aversion and he felt it to be too much trouble to invent another excuse.”

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

“John Bunyan pictures the pilgrims as passing at one time through Vanity Fair, and in Vanity Fair there were to be found all kinds of merchandise, consisting of the pomp and vanities, the lusts and pleasures of this present life and of the flesh.”

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

“THESE are the words of Solomon speaking in the name of Wisdom, which wisdom is but another name for the Lord Jesus Christ, who is made of God unto us Wisdom. If you ask, "What is the highest wisdom upon the earth?"”

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

“NO DOUBT Solomon was sometimes glad to lay aside the robes of State, escape from the forms of court and go through the country unknown.”

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

“THIS lazy man did no hurt to his fellow men—he was not a thief, nor a ruffian, nor a meddler in anybody else's business.”

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

“THE translation of our text, if it had been more literal, would have run thus, "It is the glory of God to covera matter, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."”

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

“IN Solomon's day, every man sat under his own vine and fig tree and there was peace throughout the whole country.”

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

“SOMETIMES it is necessary for a speaker to refer to himself and he may feel it necessary to do so in a way peculiar to the occasion.”