Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.
Charles SpurgeonJohn Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.
Charles SpurgeonMen turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
Charles SpurgeonWhen you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
Charles SpurgeonEarnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles SpurgeonWe might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.
Charles Spurgeon