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61 " In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
62 " The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still. "
63 " Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. "
64 " A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show. "
65 " All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life. "
66 " To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so. "
67 " Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs. "
68 " The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes. "
69 " Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. "
70 " Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. "
71 " I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds. "
72 " Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? "
73 " Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures. "
74 " Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now. "
75 " God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs. "
76 " There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions. "
77 " What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us. "
78 " The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way. "
79 " A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will. "
80 " Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host. "