The following helped me this morning to be better prepared to spread God’s fame during the day.

A spiritual experience which is thoroughly flavored with a deep and bitter sense of sin is of great value to him who hath it. It is terrible in the drinking, but it is most wholesome in the bowels, and in the whole of the after life. Possibly, much of the flimsy piety of the present day arises from the ease with which men attain to peace and joy in these evangelistic days. Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

Spurgeon, c.1890, Autobiography cited by Arnold Dallimore in A New Biography