Self-Satisfied Christians by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 10.

Self-Satisfied Christians

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

ON looking back through thirty years of church life we are compelled to come to the conclusion that the most unsatisfactory members we have ever had, have been those who were best satisfied with themselves. One brother became so thoroughly sanctified that he could not live with his wife; and another had so clean escaped from sin of every sort that he quitted us all in disgust. We find in the Sabbath-school; the lay preachers' association; the Christian young men's meetings; and in all other forms of work, that as soon as any of the brethren or sisters begin to brag about their holiness they become wholly useless, and before long the place that knew them knows them no more.—C. H. Spurgeon.