The heart is naturally so corrupt, that love to God was never found within it until the Lord himself placed it there. Should I see a rare exotic flower smiling in a hedge-row, I should know that some garden had lent it to the rugged soil; and so is it with love to God, its seed comes from God’s love to us, it springs not like a weed in the furrow, but is sown by the Lord’s own hand. You may conclude, with absolute certainty, that God loves you if you love God.

— C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)

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