We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the emptiness of earthly desires and the futility of worldly promises.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights a profound realization often encountered in life: the transient nature of material pursuits and promises tied to the physical world. Through experience, one comes to understand that these earthly ambitions often lead to a sense of hollowness, urging a reassessment of what truly holds value in life beyond the superficial allure of carnal desires.
In practice
In a discussion about the materialism of modern society, you might share this quote to emphasize a deeper perspective.
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.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
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