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41 " Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
42 " If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him. "
43 " To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. "
44 " God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything. "
45 " This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. "
46 " Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good. "
47 " Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour? "
48 " A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy. "
49 " The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. "
50 " If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter. "
51 " Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. "
52 " Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. "
53 " The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well. "
54 " The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross. "
55 " The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him. "
56 " It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him "
57 " It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune. "
58 " The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. "
59 " When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. "
60 " Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour. "