By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
Interpretation
Spurgeon advocates for the value of classical literature over modern writings.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance and enduring relevance of the writings of the Puritans, suggesting that their insights and teachings offer greater value than contemporary works. He encourages readers to delve into these historical texts, implying that they contain wisdom and depth that are often lacking in modern literature.
In practice
In a lecture on the importance of classical literature, I might say, 'By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.'
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.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
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