C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

If we would follow peace we must gird our loins with the girdle of forebearance; we must resolve that as we will not give offence, so neither will we take offence, or if offence be felt we must resolve to forgive. 940.389 Personally, I tax your forebearance to put up with me; and I need not say that sometimes I have need to exercise forebearance towards one and another in so large a church. We have all our own angles and edges, and these are apt to come into contact with others. We are all pieces of one puzzle, and shall fit in with each other one day, and make a complete whole; yet just now we seem misshapen and unfitting. Our corners need to be rounded. Sometimes they are chipped off by collision with somebody else; and that is not comfortable for the person with whom we collide. Like pebbles in the river of the water of life, we are wearing each other round and smooth, as the living current brings us into communion: everybody is polishing and being polished, and in the process it is inevitable that some present inconvenience should be sustained; but nobody must mind it, for it is part of a great process by which we shall all come into proper shape, and be made meet for endless fellowship. 1841.284 Cultivate forebearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses. 1841.288