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.
Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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