However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Interpretation
Taking time to appreciate and express gratitude can enhance our efforts and responsibilities.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of pausing to recognize the spiritual or sacred aspects of our responsibilities. In the hustle of life and work, taking a moment for 'sacred praise' helps align our efforts with deeper values, fostering a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
In practice
During a speech on community service, I would use this quote to highlight the importance of reflecting on our efforts.
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.
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Wherever you are is the entry point.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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