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 SpurgeonA Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.
Charles SpurgeonDefend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
Charles SpurgeonI trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.
Charles Spurgeon