May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
Interpretation
The quote encourages us to act positively and seize opportunities to do good, suggesting that such actions will yield positive results.
Charles Spurgeon's quote highlights the importance of being proactive in doing good whenever we have the chance. It suggests that by embracing opportunities to contribute positively to the world, we can expect favorable outcomes from our efforts. This underscores the idea that our actions, no matter how small, can lead to significant impacts if we are willing to take initiative.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one could use this quote to inspire volunteers to take action.
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.
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.
Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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