The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Charles SpurgeonIt seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.
Charles SpurgeonWhatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
Charles Spurgeon