Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
Interpretation
The true value of the Creator becomes evident when we realize the lack of fulfillment in worldly things.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon suggests that the inherent emptiness of material possessions and worldly achievements can lead to a deeper appreciation for the Creator. It implies that recognizing the transient nature of life and its offerings allows individuals to understand and value spirituality and faith more profoundly, emphasizing that true fulfillment lies beyond the physical realm.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to emphasize the importance of faith over material concerns.
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 sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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