We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
Charles SpurgeonSaints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles SpurgeonHas there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
Charles SpurgeonWe know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
Charles SpurgeonI bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon