Charles Spurgeon Quotes

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.