Pithy gems from Charles Spurgeon:

• It is better to preach five words of God’s Word–than five million words of man’s wisdom.
• Let us never think that we have learned a doctrine, until we have seen its fruit in our lives.
• A large part of the professing church is nothing better than the world, wrongfully named with Christ’s name.
• Anything that makes us pray is a blessing!

Pithy gems from J.C. Ryle:

• It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousness, our ease and our worldliness!
• According to the men of the world–few are going to Hell. According to the Bible–few are going to Heaven.
• By affliction, Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for Heaven.
• Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion! “So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth!” Revelation 3:16.