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.
Charles SpurgeonRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Amusement should be beneficial and not detract from deeper thoughts and resolutions.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of using amusement as a healthy distraction rather than allowing it to dominate our lives and thoughts. He warns that excessive entertainment can lead to a superficial existence where profound ideas and aspirations are neglected, ultimately hindering personal development and spiritual growth.
Themes
AmusementThoughtPleasureDistractionMeaning
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the impact of social media on mental health.
More from Charles Spurgeon
All quotes →It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
Charles SpurgeonRead
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
Charles SpurgeonRead
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
Charles SpurgeonRead
["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.
Charles SpurgeonRead
Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.
Charles SpurgeonRead
Similar quotes
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Joshua FoerRead
It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.
Ignatius Of AntiochRead
It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.
Henri NouwenRead
Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
Chance The RapperRead
When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.
Deepak ChopraRead
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
Henry FordRead