Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.
Interpretation
Embracing Christ leads to achieving everything of value, while neglecting Him results in losing everything essential.
This quote by Thomas Brooks highlights the profound significance of Christ in one's life. It suggests that a deep relationship with Christ encompasses all aspects of existence, providing meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. In contrast, a life without Christ is one that ultimately leads to emptiness and a lack of true satisfaction, as the essence of life is found through Him.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith, a pastor might use this quote to emphasize the necessity of placing Christ at the center of one's life.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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