Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning And Evening, Based On The English Standard Version Quotes
Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.
Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.
If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!
Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.
Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.
Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.
Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.
The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.
Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.
If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.
When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.
Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.