Doug Eaton

“God will give the strength of ripe manhood—with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

“Though it is true that my memory feels the weight of decay, and the cuts on my lip and the scars on my back bear the weight of sickness, I am not like you. You are here, trapped in the prison of your own body until death relieves the weight of your flesh of its prisoning duty. For me, freedom lies just beyond the floodwaters.”
― M.D. Eaton, And I Heard the Mourner Say

“Now the first covenant is allowed on all hands to be too hard; and the second is thought by most to be too easy, and would fall to pieces, unless shored up by sincere obedience. Accordingly, by the help of this rotten buttress, men have patched up a third covenant, consisting partly of works, and partly of grace.”
― John Berridge, The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs

“The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings