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.
One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Be more interested in character than reputation
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
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