# “The heart is very slippery” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2009-02-15T15:28:02-06:00
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“Men’s hearts are very hard to affect. If you want to get at them for any worldly
object, you can do it. A cheating world can win man’s heart; a little gold can win
man’s heart; a trump of fame and a little clamor of applause can win man’s heart.
But there is not a minister breathing that can win man’s heart himself. He can win
his ears and make them listen; he can win his eyes, and fix those eyes upon him;
he can win the attention, but the heart is very slippery.

Yes! The heart is a fish that troubles all gospel fishermen to hold. You may sometimes
pull it almost all out of the water; but, slimy as an eel, it slippeth between your
fingers, and you have not captured it after all. Many a man has fancied that he 
has caught the heart, but has been disappointed.”

-–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Power of the Holy Ghost” in _Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol.
1_ (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), 123.