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.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
It's best to be ruthless with the past.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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