Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
Interpretation
Conversion signifies a pivotal shift toward a better path, while action is required to fully embrace this new direction.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that true conversion is not just about making a decision to change but also about actively pursuing that change by walking the new path you've chosen. It highlights the importance of both recognizing the need for direction in life and taking the steps necessary to follow through on that realization.
In practice
This quote can inspire individuals during a personal development seminar to take actionable steps towards change.
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.
Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.
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