"Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties." -
C.S.Lewis.
"It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that his word should sustain us? If his word gives life, do you wonder that his word should also give food for that life?" -
Charles Spurgeon
"When God pardons a man's sins, he pardons them all." — Charles Spurgeon
The more you know about Christ, the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
Charles Spurgeon
As a Christian soldier, you must always stand in a defensive posture with your armor on, ready to defend the treasure God has given you to keep and to repel Satan’s assaults. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:153
The first advent: “She gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger” (Luke 2:7). The second advent: “He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God” (Rev 19:13).
By the free gift of God's grace, the ministry is given to us. "I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me" (Ephesians 3:7). By His grace at work in us, our ministry can be marked with courage and selflessness. "None of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself" (Acts 20:24). This pattern of grace fits the entire plan of God, because His plan is a comprehensive, freely giving plan.
"Christ loves you. He would sooner die than allow you to perish." –
Charles Spurgeon
"Once 'without Christ', then through grace 'in Christ' to become an ambassador 'for Christ' and after labor ended 'with Christ'." -
Harry Ironside.
"[...]God’s words are full of substance, they are spirit, they are life, they are to be fed upon by the spiritually hungry." - Charles Spurgeon
Will you let gold lie in your heart now when someday it will be under your feet? —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 3:166
Nothing can be otherwise than easy to him who is infinitely powerful.
Jonathan Edwards
Men have one thing in view; he has another, and his counsel shall stand. -
John Newton
The birth of Christ means God chooses to set His love on the unlovable.
"Lord, be our strength. We are weakness itself." — Charles Spurgeon
"Omissions make way for commissions." -Ralph Venning.
The soul that really loves Christ delights in holiness and spends all its strength on it. —
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2:201
"The more you know of him, the more you wish to know; and the more you taste of him, the sweeter he becomes till, in heaven, the sweetness will be far more intense than it is now[…]" - Charles Spurgeon
*Eye the Father as love;* look not on him as an always lowering father, but as one most kind and tender. - John Owen
"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." -
Henry Ward Beecher.
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