Charles Spurgeon:
Do not slice pieces out of your manhood and then hope to fill up the vacancies with bank notes. He who loses manliness or godliness to gain gold is a great cheater of himself. Keep yourselves entirely for God and for His Christ—and let all other matters be additions, not subtractions! Live above the world. Its goods will come to you when you do not bid high for them. If you hunt the butterfly of wealth too eagerly, you may spoil it by the stroke with which you secure it.
Excerpted from First Things First.
Join us on January 30 to February 1 for our 2012 Conference for Pastors, "God, Manhood & Ministry: Building Men for the Body of Christ."
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Recent posts for the 2012 Conference for Pastors —
- "Never" — A Word Worth Its Weight in Gold
- Your Best Things Are Yet to Come
- J. C. Ryle on the Power of Prayer
