I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of staying true to one's principles and beliefs despite societal pressures.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon expresses a profound commitment to his core values and faith, asserting that he derives strength and pride from the grace of God. He rejects the idea of conforming to contemporary religious trends that do not align with his convictions, highlighting the importance of integrity and steadfastness in one's beliefs.
In practice
In a sermon about moral integrity, a speaker could use this quote to emphasize the importance of unwavering principles.
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.
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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