Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the immense value of sacrifice and the significance of Immanuel's (Jesus') suffering.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon highlights the unparalleled worth of the blood shed by Jesus Christ, portraying it as not only precious but priceless, particularly in the context of redemption and sacrifice. It suggests that the life and suffering of Immanuel are invaluable, representing the ultimate act of love and sacrifice for humanity's sake, thus inviting reflection on the deep spiritual implications of such an act.
In practice
During a sermon on the significance of sacrifice in Christianity.
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.
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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