I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes living with conviction and certainty rather than doubt.
Charles Spurgeon asserts that one cannot authentically preach or share beliefs if they themselves are consumed by doubt. It highlights the importance of living with confidence and sincerity, suggesting that true guidance comes from a place of unwavering faith and clarity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of belief and authenticity.
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.
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
I believe in order that I may understand.
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