We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's duties and responsibilities before seeking personal fulfillment or reward.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the idea of selflessness and duty. It suggests that the desire for personal salvation or reward should not overshadow the responsibility we have toward others, especially in helping those who have yet to find salvation. This sense of obligation to others emphasizes that true fulfillment comes from serving and supporting our fellow beings until our work is complete.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service to emphasize the importance of helping others.
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.
I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,_x000D_ if you let it alone,_x000D_ it will let you alone.
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
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