The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
Interpretation
A deeper understanding of Christ leads to a rejection of shallow beliefs.
Charles Spurgeon's quote suggests that as one grows in knowledge and understanding of Christ, one becomes dissatisfied with only superficial or cursory views of Him. This implies that a genuine relationship and study of spiritual matters deepen one's faith and lead to a more profound appreciation of the complexities and depths of Christ's character and teachings.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of deepening one's spiritual journey.
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.
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
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