Christopher Connell

“Therefore, the humble working man, toiling faithfully at his job, nurturing and shepherding his wife, and seeking to bring up his children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, conforms to God's picture of a real man.”
― Richard D. Phillips, The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

“Mercy! mercy!” he vociferated; “that is what makes my situation so dreadful! I have despised mercy! I have scoffed at God! I have refused Christ! If God was only just, I could bear it. But now the thought of his abused mercy is worst of all! There is no mercy for me any longer! for years I have refused Christ! My day has gone by! I am lost! I am lost!” “You think wrong,” said I, “God has not limited his invitations. Christ says, ‘Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.’” “My day has gone by!” said he. “No; it has not,” I replied, in a voice as firm as his own: “behold now is the accepted time—now is the day of salvation.”
― Ichabod Spencer, A PASTOR'S SKETCHES: The Art of Evangelistic Pastoral Visitation

“The first is this: the fact of sinnership is no reason for despair. You need none of you say, “I am guilty, and therefore I may not approach to God; I am so greatly guilty that it would be too daring a thing for me to ask for mercy.” Dismiss such thoughts at once. My text and a thousand other arguments forbid despair.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth

“If the work of grace be really wrought of God in your soul, it will last through your whole life, and if it does not so last, that proves that it is not the work of God. God does not put his hand to this work a second time. There is no regeneration twice over, you can be born again, but you cannot be born again, and again,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Verse Exposition Of Matthew: The Expansive Commentary Collection