All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and actions should reflect gratitude and praise towards the divine.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of recognizing and expressing gratitude for the blessings we receive in life. It suggests that all aspects of our lives—our thoughts, words, and actions—should be directed towards honoring and praising a higher power that continually provides for us, highlighting the relationship between gratitude and spiritual practice.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of gratitude in our daily lives.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
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