The Christian is no more a common man than was the altar [in the temple] a common place. It is as great a sacrilege for the believer to live unto himself, or to live unto the world, as you and I could have profaned the most holy place [the temple], used the holy fire for our own kitchen, or the censer for common perfume, or the candlestick for our own chamber. These things were God’s; none might venture to appropriate them. And we are God’s and must be used only for him. Oh, Christians, would that you could know this! You are Christ’s, God’s; servants of God through Jesus Christ!1
Charles H. Spurgeon
2 à l'Eglise de Dieu qui est à Corinthe, à ceux qui ont été sanctifiés en Jésus-Christ, saints par vocation, et à tous ceux qui invoquent en quelque lieu que ce soit le nom de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, leur Seigneur et le nôtre: