You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.
Charles SpurgeonTo me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe
Charles SpurgeonIf we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.
Charles SpurgeonBe Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.
Charles SpurgeonI do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
Charles Spurgeon