Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
Charles SpurgeonQuietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
Charles SpurgeonThe more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
Charles SpurgeonFor my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
Charles Spurgeon