I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
Interpretation
The word 'lost' signifies deep despair and hopelessness in life.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the profound negativity associated with the term 'lost.' He suggests that feeling lost encompasses not just physical disorientation but also a greater emotional and existential crisis, revealing the dread and vulnerability that comes with a lack of direction or purpose in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding one's purpose in life.
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.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
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