From Morning and Evening, by Charles Spurgeon
When the fish swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again.
If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.
Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey.
Thus Jesus is magnified—for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made certain to us—for it is obtained in him.
Death must sever the conjugal tie between the most loving mortals, but it cannot divide the links of this immortal marriage.
We should, as good traders in heaven’s market, covet to be enriched in the knowledge of Jesus.
There is no purer or more thrilling delight to be known this side heaven than that of having Christ’s joy fulfilled in us.
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated.
It is blessed working when Jesus is at our side!
A sense of our own poverty drives us to Christ, and that is where we need to be, for in him is our fruit found.
What is my barrenness? It is the platform for his fruit-creating power.
God alone can give rest to my spirit.
Christ Jesus has no quarrel with his spouse. She often wanders from him, and grieves his Holy Spirit, but he does not allow her faults to affect his love.
Be wise and attend to the obeying, and let Christ manage the providing.
If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained.
All the sin that a believer ever did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, as his advocate.
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.
When we serve our Lord Jesus as believers should do, our God is with us; and though we have the whole world against us, if we have God with us, what does it matter?
Short of the nearest and dearest intercourse with him my panting spirit cannot stay.
God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but he called them that they might be holy.
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