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.
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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