Strengthen my heart

"Patient waiting upon God was a special characteristic of our Lord Jesus. Impatience never lingered in His heart, much less escaped His lips. All through His agony in the garden, His trial of cruel mocking before Herod and Pilate, and His passion on the tree, He waited with omnipotent patience. No glance of wrath, no word of murmuring, no deed of vengeance came from God's patient Lamb . . . The Christ of God wears the imperial crown among the patient. If the Only Begotten waits, shall we be petulant and rebellious? Neither Jesus the head, nor any members of His body, shall ever wait upon the Lord in vain." -Charles Spurgeon

"Let all wise builders turn themselves away from sand to rock, for if not today, surely before long, a storm will rise before which nothing will be able to stand but that which has the lasting element of faith in God to cement it." -Charles Spurgeon

"Here is one of the sweet results of affliction: it gives new life to our pleading, and drives us with eagerness to our God." -Charles Spurgeon

"Hope in God's intervention, and belief in the power of prayer, are two most blessed supports to the soul in time of adversity." -Charles Spurgeon

"Our comfort is that our glorious Head knows the stubborn malignity of our foes, and will in due season put an end to it; even now He is setting a limit upon it." -Charles Spurgeon

"With believers it may rain in the morning, thunder at midday, and pour in torrents in the afternoon, but it must clear up before the sun goes down. War may last till our last hour, but then we shall hear the last of it." -Charles Spurgeon

"Tarry in obedience as a servant, in hope as an heir, in expectation as a believer." -Charles Spurgeon

"God often appears to deliver His servants, and when He does not do so in this life with regard to their bodies, He gives their souls such joy and peace that they triumphantly rise beyond their tormentor's power. We may be in the enemy's hand for a while, as Job was, but we cannot be left there. Time shall reverse the verdict of haste, or else eternity shall clear away the condemnation of time. In due season just men will be justified." -Charles Spurgeon

"We must not envy the doers of evil, but depart altogether from their spirit and example. As Lot left Sodom without casting a look behind, so must we leave sin. No truce or parley is to be held with sin, we must turn away from it without hesitation, and set ourselves practically to work in the opposite direction." -Charles Spurgeon

"It is not that the saints are strong, or wise, or meritorious, that therefore they rise after every fall, but because God is their helper, and therefore none can prevail against them." -Charles Spurgeon

"We would sooner hunger with John than feast with Herod; better to feed on scant fare with the prophets in Obadiah's cave than riot with the priests of Baal. A man's happiness does not consist in the heaps of gold that he has in store." -Charles Spurgeon

"Every name, attribute, word, or deed of Jehovah should be delightful to us, and in meditating upon it our soul should be as glad as the epicure who feeds delicately with a profound relish for his dainties." -Charles Spurgeon

"Make Jehovah the joy and rejoicing of your spirit. Bad men delight in carnal objects; do not envy them if they are allowed to take their fill in such vain idols; look to your better delight, and fill yourself to the full with your nobler portion." -Charles Spurgeon

"Nature is very apt to kindle a fire of jealousy when it sees law-breakers riding on horses, and obedient subjects walking in the mire. It is a lesson learned only in the school of grace, when one comes to view the most paradoxical providences with the devout complaisance of one who is sure that the Lord is righteous in all His acts. Faith cures fretting. Sight is cross-eyed, and views things only as they seem, hence her envy; faith has clearer optics to behold things as they really are, hence her peace." -Charles Spurgeon

"Vain are those who look to learning and human wit; one ray from the throne of God is better than the noonday splendour of created wisdom. Lord, give me the sun, and let those who wish to, delight in the wax candles of superstition and the phosphorescence of corrupt philosophy. Faith derives both light and life from God, and so she neither dies nor darkens." -Charles Spurgeon

"Light is the glory of life. Life in the dark is misery, and rather death than life. The Lord alone can give natural, intellectual and spiritual life; He alone can make life bright and lustrous." -Charles Spurgeon

"All the myriads of creatures, rational and irrational, are fed by Jehovah's hand. The countless beasts, the innumerable birds, the inconceivable abundance of fishes, the all but infinite armies of insects, all owe their continuance in life to the unceasing outgoings of the divine power. What a view of God this presents to us! What a debased creature must he be who sees no trace of such a God, and feels no awe of Him!" -Charles Spurgeon