Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.
Charles SpurgeonIf you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
Charles SpurgeonNow and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.
Charles Spurgeon