Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
Interpretation
The quote encourages individuals to seek help in restoring their inner harmony when feeling lost or discontented.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon highlights the importance of turning to a higher authority or source of wisdom when one feels spiritually or emotionally out of balance. He suggests that just as a musical instrument needs tuning to produce the right sound, our hearts and souls require guidance and support to achieve harmony and peace. By acknowledging our struggles and seeking assistance, we can rediscover our inner tune and live more fulfilling lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
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