Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of prayer in life, suggesting that neglecting it may have serious spiritual consequences.
Charles Spurgeon's quote illustrates the belief that a life devoid of prayer can lead to regret and desperation in the afterlife. It serves as a stark reminder of the need for spiritual communication and reflection, suggesting that those who ignore this aspect of life may find themselves seeking solace too late, particularly in dire circumstances.
In practice
During a sermon emphasizing the need for spiritual reflection.
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 problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.
Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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