Christopher Connell

“He tries to cast a doubt upon the Saviour’s Sonship, and this is the way that he often attacks a child of God now. He says to him, “If thou be a son of God, do so-and-so.” He challenged Christ to work a miracle for himself, — to use his divine power on his own behalf, but this the Saviour never did. He challenged Christ to distrust the providence of God, and to be his own Provider; and this is still a very common temptation to God’s people.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Verse Exposition Of Matthew: The Expansive Commentary Collection

“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

“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

“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