Spurgeon on Sin and the Savior

I’ve been reading Dave Harvey’s book on marriage, When Sinners Say “I Do” (see my sidebar for more information on the book), and was helped by the following quote by Charles Spurgeon: “Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honour of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed” (quoted in Arnold Dallimore, Spurgeon: A New Biography [Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1987], 14; also quoted in Dave Harvey, When Sinners Say “I Do” [Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2007], 38). I hope the quote causes you, as it did me, to be struck more with the great mercy of God in rescuing us from our high treason against him (see Ephesians 2:1-10 for a similar contrast and a similar response from Paul—“by grace we have been saved!”).