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.
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
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