“For one believeth that he may eat all things: 

another, who is weak, eateth herbs” 

(Romans 14:2).

“He never loved you for your good works, 

He has never cast you away for your bad works, 

but beheld you as washed in the atoning blood of Jesus.” 

—Charles Spurgeon

“Casting down imaginations, 

and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, 

and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” 

(2 Corinthians 10:5).

“A man’s heart deviseth his way: 

but the Lord directeth his steps” 

(Proverbs 16:9).

“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; 

but nourisheth and cherisheth it ...  ” 

(Ephesians 5:29).

“I am afraid that all the grace I have got out of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows and pains and griefs is altogether incalculable. What do I not owe to the hammer and the anvil, the fire and the file! Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.” —Charles Spurgeon

“And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron” 

(2 Chronicles 15:16).