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.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
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