God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
Interpretation
True praise to God requires both vocal expression and heartfelt devotion.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the importance of sincerity in worship. It suggests that simply verbalizing praise is not sufficient; one's heart and emotions must be genuinely engaged in the act of exultation to truly honor God.
In practice
A pastor might use this quote during a sermon to emphasize the importance of heartfelt worship.
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.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
As wave is driven by wave_x000D_ And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,_x000D_ So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,_x000D_ Always, for ever and new. What was before_x000D_ Is left behind; what never was is now;_x000D_ And every passing moment is renewed.
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
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