If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living a life dedicated to a higher purpose beyond oneself.
In this quote, Charles Simeon challenges individuals who have attained a certain level of distinction to reflect on their purpose and contributions. He suggests that such individuals should not only live for their own benefit but dedicate their lives to serving God and others, striving for spiritual perfection and fulfilling God's will in all aspects of their lives.
In practice
In a sermon about living a purposeful life, one might quote this to inspire the congregation.
The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
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