Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
Interpretation
Grace can help us, but it can also create a sense of obligation.
In this quote, Augustus Toplady reflects on the concept of grace, suggesting that while it offers us support and kindness when we are in need (like beggars), it also imposes a responsibility or a sense of indebtedness to respond to that grace, transforming us from mere recipients into those who owe something in return. This highlights the complex relationship between receiving help and recognizing one's obligation to show gratitude or act in kind.
In practice
In a speech about philanthropy, one could quote this to emphasize the responsibility that comes with receiving charitable aid.
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
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