Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
Interpretation
Scripture remains relevant throughout life, offering deeper insights as we grow older.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that the teachings and narratives found in Scripture are not confined to a single interpretation or understanding. As individuals progress through various stages in life, their experiences and reflections allow them to uncover new layers of meaning within these ancient texts, enriching their spiritual journey and personal growth.
In practice
During a religious service, one might use this quote to emphasize the lifelong journey of understanding Scripture.
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 the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
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