“Poor dumb animals cannot speak for themselves, and therefore every one who has his speech should plead for them.”
“There’s a deal to be done with animals with kindness, and nothing with cruelty. He who is unmerciful to his beast is worse than a beast himself.”
“Mr. Rowland Hill used to say that a man was not a true Christian if his dog and his cat were not the better off for it. That witness is true.”
“I do not believe in the piety of a man who is cruel to a horse. There is need of the whip sometimes, but the man who uses it cruelly cannot surely be a converted man”
“Treat all creatures kindly, then, so far as you can, for the great Creator’s sake.”
– Charles Spurgeon –
Source: Sermonindex.net