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.
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
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