Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
Interpretation
Challenges and difficulties shape strong character and faith.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that true strength of character and faith is forged through adversity. It suggests that encountering significant challenges and trials in life is essential for developing a resilient spirit and greater conviction, highlighting the transformative power of hardship.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
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.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
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