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The god of modern thought and Psalm 115:8, compared
* "The next thing, dear friends, is that we must prove that ''the old faith produces much love of our fellow men''. You know that, nowadays, the watchword is, "the enthusiasm of humanity." It is a curious thing that those churches that have such a wonderful "enthusiasm of humanity" speak of us as if we were always talking of God and forgetting men. Well, well, which of these new-fangled churches has an orphanage? It is very fine to talk about Christian socialism and what you are going to do for the poor - but what have you done? Much of it is just chatter, chatter and nothing else! But the godly, who feel that God is all, are, after all, those who care most for men. And those who believe most firmly that the unbelieving sinner will be lost are the men who are most anxious to have him saved!" - Dare to Be a Daniel, January 15, 1893<ref>[http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols37-39/chs2291.pdf Dare to Be a Daniel]</ref>
* "The next thing, dear friends, is that we must prove that ''the old faith produces much love of our fellow men''. You know that, nowadays, the watchword is, "the enthusiasm of humanity." It is a curious thing that those churches that have such a wonderful "enthusiasm of humanity" speak of us as if we were always talking of God and forgetting men. Well, well, which of these new-fangled churches has an orphanage? It is very fine to talk about Christian socialism and what you are going to do for the poor - but what have you done? Much of it is just chatter, chatter and nothing else! But the godly, who feel that God is all, are, after all, those who care most for men. And those who believe most firmly that the unbelieving sinner will be lost are the men who are most anxious to have him saved!" - Dare to Be a Daniel, January 15, 1893<ref>[http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols37-39/chs2291.pdf Dare to Be a Daniel]</ref>
* "The god of modern thought exceedingly resembles the deities described in this psalm.<ref>Psalm 115:8</ref> [[Pantheism]] is wondrously akin to Polytheism, and yet differs very little from Atheism. The god manufactured by our great thinkers is a mere abstraction: he has no eternal purposes, he does not interpose on the behalf of his people, he cares but very little as to how much man sins, for he has given to the initiated "a larger hope" by which the most incorrigible are to be restored. He is what the last set of critics chooses to make him, he has said what they choose to say, and lie will do what they please to prescribe. Let this creed and its devotees alone, and they will work out their own refutation, for as now their god is fashioned like themselves, they will by degrees fashion themselves like their god; and when the principles of justice, law, and order shall have all been effectually sapped we may possibly witness in some form of socialism, similar to that which is so sadly spreading in Germany, a repetition of the evils which have in former ages befallen nations which have refused the living God, and set up gods of their own." - ''The Treasury of David'', p. 267.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vdFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms], by C. H. Spurgeon, 1882</ref>
* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.
* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.