Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that every moment in a Christian's life is filled with grace.
Charles Spurgeon's quote suggests that life, especially for a Christian, is an ongoing experience of grace that connects earthly existence to heavenly aspirations. It implies that each minute lived on Earth, despite its challenges, is a gift infused with divine grace, highlighting the importance of recognizing and appreciating these moments.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to inspire congregants about the concept of grace.
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 ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
It's only words... unless they're true.
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
It will not always be summer: build barns.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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