One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
Charles SpurgeonThe greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles SpurgeonMaster those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themโฆdigest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be โmuch not many.
Charles Spurgeon