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.
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
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