Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the continuous evolution of our character and the dual role of our inner spirit in both guiding and comforting us.
Charles Spurgeon's quote reflects on the idea that each passing day contributes to the formation of our eternal selves, suggesting that our daily choices and actions shape our long-term identity. It highlights the importance of self-awareness, as the same inner spirit that may convict us of our shortcomings can also provide solace and encouragement as we seek to grow and improve.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement, one might refer to this quote to inspire the audience to reflect on their daily actions.
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.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today.
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.
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