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1 " Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
2 " As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature. "
3 " A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...! "
4 " Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. "
5 " Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. "
6 " Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it. "
7 " If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit. "
8 " You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection. "
9 " Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. "
10 " If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! "
11 " The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. "
12 " Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. "
13 " See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight. "
14 " Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. "
15 " The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. "
16 " We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. "
17 " As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. "
18 " Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. "
19 " Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. "
20 " Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man, "