...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.
Interpretation
Focus on divine guidance before seeking human advice.
This quote emphasizes the importance of seeking spiritual wisdom and understanding from God before turning to human opinions or perspectives. It suggests that divine insight can provide clarity and direction that human advice may not offer, and that our relationship with the divine should be prioritized in decision-making and understanding life's challenges.
In practice
Using the quote in a sermon about prioritizing faith in life's decisions.
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.
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
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