Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.
From Charles Spurgeon
As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.
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