If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the significance of having Christ as the central focus of one's life, guiding one's emotions and actions.
Charles Spurgeon's quote underscores the importance of making Christ the focal point of one's existence. It suggests that if one truly believes in Christ, that belief should permeate every aspect of life, driving one's love and faith to dominate their soul's priorities. Spurgeon encourages individuals to actively cultivate these passions, asserting that they should not rest until they have achieved a deep, abiding love and faith in Jesus.
In practice
During a church sermon about faith, one might use this quote to inspire the congregation.
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.
Don't forget to love yourself.
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that invisible mechanism I spoke of before; perhaps the finest sign, the most certain. In it’s throes we need neither luck nor science. We are the wheel, and the man who profits by it. We are the star, and the darkness it pierces. We are the butterfly, brief and beautiful.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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