The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
Interpretation
Life is fleeting, and we must make the most of our time on Earth as it is brief compared to eternity.
In this quote, George Muller reflects on the brevity of human life in the grand scheme of eternity. He emphasizes that our time on Earth is limited and should be spent purposefully, with an understanding that our actions in this life have lasting impacts, akin to sowing seeds that will later bear fruit in a metaphorical sense. This idea encourages individuals to be mindful of how they live their lives and the legacy they leave behind.
In practice
In a motivational speech about living purposefully.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
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