Charles Spurgeon

Look at him, can your imagination picture him? Behold his transcendent glory! The majesty of kings is swallowed up; the pomp of empires dissolves like the white mist of the morning before the sun; the

After the defeat of the Romans at the battle of Allia, Rome was sacked, and it seemed as if, at any moment, the Gauls might take the capitol. Among the garrison was a young man

To-day the world is like a masquerade. High carnival is being held, and men wear their masques and dominoes, and strut about, and we think that man a king, and this a mighty prince, and

Christ is our great example in cross-bearing. He had not where to lay his head in life, nor a rag to cover him in death, nor anything but a borrowed grave in burial. What manner

On a huge cross by the side of an Italian highway hung a hideous caricature of the Beloved of our souls, who poured out His life for our redemption. Out of reverence to the living

Phidias, the Grecian sculptor, needed not to have the name Phidias in so many letters on his work, for the master’s hand had a cunning of its own which none could counterfeit. An instructed person

Sir Francis Drake being in a dangerous storm in the Thames, was heard to say, “Must I who have escaped the rage of the ocean, be drowned in a ditch?” Will you, experienced saints, who

When we preach fine sermons our hearers say, “That was prettily put.” They do not so much notice what we taught, as how we taught it, and this is a great evil. Even so if

If you are ever so low now remember that “A few more rolling suns, at most, Will land thee on fair Canaan’s coast.” Thy head may be crowned with thorny troubles now, but it shall

It is a very terrible thing to let conscience begin to grow hard, for it soon chills into northern iron and steel. It is like the freezing of a pond. The first film of ice