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.
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future
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