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.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
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