Susie Quotes

“but the Heavenly Father has sweeter, choicer words than these for His erring children. His love is Divine, so He says, “I have seen his ways and will heal him.” O sweet pitifulness of our God! O tenderness inexplicable! O love surpassing all earth’s loveliest affection! Do not our hard hearts yield under the power of such compassion as this? God knows all our wickedness. He has seen all our waywardness; yet His purpose towards us is one of healing and pardon, and not of anger and putting away.12”
― Ray Rhodes Jr., Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. Spurgeon

“How inexpressibly thankful do I feel now for the sustaining grace which upheld me, and enabled me to testify to them [pastors who received books from her] from my own experience, that every promise of God holds true, and that even in the depths of sorrow and darkness, His light shines round about those who put their trust in Him!12”
― Ray Rhodes Jr., Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. Spurgeon

“Take courage, my beloved, the sun has not ceased to shine, nor has our God forgotten to be gracious.”7”
― Ray Rhodes Jr., Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. Spurgeon

“above all, trust Jesus and distrust self.29”
― Ray Rhodes Jr., Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. Spurgeon

“The purpose of suffering, in Charles’s view, was to bring men “near to Jesus” and to a “conscious”
― Ray Rhodes Jr., Susie: The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon, wife of Charles H. Spurgeon