J.C. Ryle: The True Church Loves to Hear About Christ

"If we love a person, we like to hear about him.  We find a pleasure in listening to those who speak of him.  We feel an interest in any report which others make of him.  We are all attention when others talk about him, and mentioned with utter indifference, but our own hearts bound within us at the very sound of his name.  Well, it is just so between the true Christian and Christ.  The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master.  He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.  He enjoys that society most in which people talk of the things which are Christ's.  I have read of an old Welsh believer, who used to walk several miles every Sunday to hear an English clergyman preach, though she did not understand a word of English.  She was asked why she did so.  She replied, that this clergyman named the name of Christ so often in his sermons, that it did her good.  She loved even the name of her Savior" (J.C. Ryle, Holiness).