Growing rich on the old iron
Reading a Spurgeon biography last night and came on this quote. Spurgeon once commented…
“I was reading some time ago,” he said on one occasion, “an article in a newspaper, very much in my praise. It always makes me feel sad—so sad that I could cry—if ever I see anything praising me; it breaks my heart; I feel I do not deserve it, and then I say, ‘Now I must try to be better, so that I may deserve it.’ If the world abuses me, I am a match for that; I begin to like it. It may fire all its big guns at me and I will not return a solitary shot, but just store them up, and grow rich upon the old iron.”
From: Charles Haddon Spurgeon, A Biography, By W. Y. Fullerton, Chapter 5
Kevin is a husband, dad of eight, pastor and blogger from beautiful Higgins Lake, Michigan 
2. January 2007 at 16:53
Thank you for your post. I have been needing to find a good book for the new year. Do you have any suggestions?
Love
Mel
2. January 2007 at 17:08
Hi Mel,
One book I think everyone should read is Humility: True Greatness, by C.J. Mahaney.
Right now I’m working my way through Overcoming Sin and Temptation which is actually three books in one by John Owen. It’s a more stout read than the first book but I’m finding it very good.