By Charles Spurgeon
Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey.
It is safer always for you to be led of the Spirit into gospel liberty than to wear legal fetters.
Sin soon destroys a believer’s comfort. It is the poisonous upas tree, from whose leaves distil deadly drops which destroy the life of joy and peace.
Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
The more burdens we put on his shoulders, the more precious will he be to us.
Majesty gleams in flashes of fire amid the tempest’s horrors, and the glory of the Lord is seen in its grandeur in the fall of empires.
It is when we are in his work that we may reckon upon his smile.
The Lord will give us his peace most plenteously, but not in a way of idleness.
Believe this, and all inability will disappear. As it is fabled of Midas that he turned everything into gold by his touch, so it is true of faith that it turns everything it touches into good.
Oh, noble and pleasant employment to be forever gazing at our sweet Lord Jesus!
You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart.
As a mother puts out her finger to her little child and woos it to walk by saying, ‘Come,’ even so does Jesus.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated.
The carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and become great, but the Lord’s way is quite the reverse.
If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained.
He can labour without present reward, for he looks for a reward in the world to come.
Those who have most fellowship with Christ are not recluses or hermits, who have much time to spare, but indefatigable labourers who are toiling for Jesus.
Let thy religion begin at home.
If to do the right, and to believe the true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be yet more friendly.
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