“Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, ‘After preaching the gospel for forty years, and after printing the sermons I have preached more than six and thirty years, reaching now to the number of twenty-two thousand, in weekly succession, I am fairly entitled to speak about the fullness and the richness of the Bible as a preacher’s book. Brethren, it is inexhaustible. No question about freshness will arise if we keep close to the text of the sacred volume. There can be no difficulty about finding themes totally distinct from those we have handled before; the variety is as infinite as the fullness. A long life will only suffice to skirt the shores of this great continent of light. In forty years of my ministry I have only touched the hem of the garment of divine truth, but what virtue has flowed out of it! The word is like its Author – infinite, immeasurable, without end. If you were ordained to be a preacher through eternity, you would have before you a theme equal to everlasting demands.’”

--Gospel Advocate, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 27, p. 347.