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.
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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