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.
When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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