Spurgeon on blessing God

 "If we never cease to bless him till he ceases to bless us, our employment will be eternal."

Charles Spurgeon (commenting on Psalm 103:5)

Suffering Patience Victory

'My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ's sake.

When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the prickling of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our Holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death.

Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory.'

Charles Simeon

Bonhoeffer on Humility

'[true Christian] humility.. is wholly unselfconscious, even as the eye can see other people but can never see itself.

Such hiddenness will one day be made manifest, but that will be God's doing, not ours.'

(Bonhoeffer, Cost of Dicipleship, 117)