Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!
Charles SpurgeonEarnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles SpurgeonIt is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
Charles SpurgeonIf Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?
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